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Here are some instructions on how to generate patches: 1.
- Ensure that you have all of your change as 1 commit which has the correct commit message - something like
BIGTOP-1031: README has outdated/ambiguous information
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Run
to make sure that newly added files do not have any licensing issues. When in doubt refer to https://www.apache.org/licenses/mvn apache-rat:check
- Then run a command like: git format-patch HEAD^..HEAD --stdout > BIGTOP-1031.patch
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- Upload the BIGTOP-1031.1.patch file to this JIRA
The naming of the patch file is up to you. The preferred way however is to just name the file after the JIRA ticket e.g. BIGTOP-1031.patch. In the latter case, If case you need to upload another version of the patch, you should keep the file name the same and JIRA will sort them according to date/time if multiple files have the same name. This feature is also useful to traceback the history of a patch and roll-back to an earlier version if needed.
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