Hi, Thanks Zoltan for starting this discussion. I ran into this a couple times lately.
I've just opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20191 to mitigate the effect of a wrong submission. Since I was backporting from master, I did't even notice that the patches were applied on master. I'd be in favor of changing the pattern, or allowing both '.' and '-'. @Vihang, from the Hive QE comments it seems that your first two patches were also applied on master instead of branch-3. Regards, Daniel On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:29 PM Vihang Karajgaonkar <vih...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > It doesn't matter if you use a dot v/s a dash to separate the patch version > with the profile name (same as branch name but its technically different). > See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18885 as an example where I > had submitted both the naming styles and precommit picked it up. Having > said that I find this naming convention confusing too. Does anyone know how > do the other projects handle branch specific patch names? > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:26 AM, Zoltan Haindrich <k...@rxd.hu> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I've seen a few people running into some problems because the current > > patch naming convention is a little bit odd: > > > > HIVE-<JIRA-NUMBER>[.<patch-num>][-<branch-name>].patch > > > > ...so if you would like to submit patch #02 to branch-2: > > > > A file named: HIVE-111.02-branch-2 patch should be uploaded (note that > > there is a mandatory dash after the patch number) > > I think this looks a bit odd also because most of the branch-es has a "-" > > in there name (branch-2/branch-3). > > > > Because most people are naturally uploading files with the following > > format, I would like to recommend to change the convention to: > > HIVE-<JIRA-NUMBER>[.<patch-num>][.<branch-name>].patch > > > > Examples: > > HIVE-111.feature-branch.patch > > HIVE-111.123.feature-branch.patch > > HIVE-111.123.feature-branch.patch > > > > cheers, > > Zoltan > > >