[HADOOP-7384] Allow test-patch to be more flexible about patch format

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 13/Jun/11 00:41
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 14/Jun/11 15:06

Description

Right now the test-patch process only accepts patches that are generated as "-p0" relative to common/, hdfs/, or mapreduce/. This has always been annoying for git users where the default patch format is -p1. It's also now annoying for SVN users who may generate a patch relative to trunk/ instead of the subproject subdirectory. We should auto-detect the correct patch level.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HBASE-5743 Support GIT patches