David W. Van Couvering wrote: > I like to start by applying a patch to the revision level that the patch > was built with. That way I can make very sure I applied things > correctly -- I can diff the output of svn status and svn diff with what > the contributor provided. This is especially important when the > contribution includes files that are added (especially new empty files > like empty test master files), which I actually have to add by hand. > > Once that looks good, I do an svn update with no -r option to update the > tree to the head of the trunk. If at this point I get errors, then, > yes, I would complain to the contributor, but I want to make sure I > applied the patch correctly first. > > Maybe that's not how everyone does it, but that's how I like to do it, > so that's why I was suggesting the revision number. I can also do it by > date, but the revision number is more accurate.
Ok sounds fine, isn't the svn revision in the svn diff output though? Dan.
