Oh, this is also in the release notes, but one can use a git reference # as 
well. :) (with kudos to OOM for the idea.)

On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> wrote:

> 
> More than likely. It probably needs more testing (esp under Jenkins).  
> 
> It should be noted that the code in test-patch.sh has lots of problems with 
> branch-0, minor, and micro releases.  But for major releases, it seems to 
> work well for me. :)  
> 
> On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli 
> <vino...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does this mean HADOOP-7435 is no longer needed / closeable as dup?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> +Vinod
>> 
>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>     
>>> Hey gang, 
>>> 
>>>     Just so everyone is aware, if you are working on a patch for either a 
>>> feature branch or a major branch, if you name the patch with the branch 
>>> name following the spec in HowToContribute (and a few other ways… 
>>> test-patch tries to figure it out!), test-patch.sh *should* be switching 
>>> the repo over to that branch for testing. 
>>> 
>>>     For example,  naming a patch foo-branch-2.01.patch should get tested on 
>>> branch-2.  Naming a patch foo-HDFS-7285.00.patch should get tested on the 
>>> HDFS-7285 branch.
>>> 
>>>     This hopefully means that there should really be no more ‘blind’ +1’s 
>>> to patches that go to branches.  The “we only test against trunk” argument 
>>> is no longer valid. :)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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