Personally I like version numbers as well, it allows me to refer to a specific version of the patch (vs a patch on a given time of date/date).
I also notice some people use .txt which browsers can view in place vs .patch which will download by default unless you register a viewer. Thanks, Eli On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Ravi Prakash <ravihad...@gmail.com> wrote: > But what if I want to see an incremental diff between two patches? I don't > want to review the whole patch everytime. Maybe I just want to re-review the > changes made to a patch. I would then have sort the patches manually using > time. I think its better to have version numbers in that case > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 09/09/2011 07:27 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> > If you post the same patch with the same name, JIRA helps you out by >> greying >> > all the earlier versions out. >> >> Indeed. That's the best practice, not to add version numbers to patch >> files, for this very reason. We should perhaps note this on: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute >> >> I am a Jira administrator and would be happy to change the default >> ordering of attachments if it were possible, however I can see no option >> to do so. >> >> Doug >> >
