How to Verify a Patch

Find a patch
- Look for a Ticket that has a patch that you can apply
- Find out the url of the patch you want to apply, you’ll need it in a second…
Make a New Local Branch (on your local machine)
git checkout -b TheNameOfYourTemporaryBranch
Apply the Patch to Your New Branch
curl URL_TO_THE_PATCH_FILE |git am OR
download URL_TO_THE_PATCH_FILE somehow to a file on your local system and then run
git am THE_NAME_OF_YOUR_PATCH_FILE
Verify the Awesomeness of the Patch
- Whatever makes you sure that this patch is good in your personal opinion
- Look at a diff
  git diff HEAD^
- Look at the code
- Run the specs
- etc…
Make Any Related Modifications
- Add more specs
- Fix the whitespace
- etc…
- Then commit those changes to the same branch
Merge Into Your Master Branch
git co master; git merge TheNameOfYourTemporaryBranch
Delete Your Temporary Branch
git branch -d TheNameOfYourTemporaryBranch
Push Back up to GitHub
git push origin master
Update the Ticket With Your Approval
- Be sure to mention that you ran the specs and they passed
- Mention the specific browser / OS that you verified the specs with

Last edited by subtleGradient, Fri Jul 11 04:26:39 -0700 2008

Home | Edit | New

Versions: