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On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com>wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Lorin Hochstein <
>> lorin at nimbisservices.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When back porting a doc change in the Object Storage (Swift) admin
>>> guide, I noticed several other changes that haven't been backported.
>>>
>>> I'm a little fuzzy on how the Swift release cycle works and how that
>>> impacts doc branches. Is it safe to just backport the whole guide from
>>> trunk to stable/folsom at this point, or does the trunk object storage
>>> admin guide document features that haven't been released yet?
>>>
>>
>> None that I know of... though can you narrowly define the patch to apply
>> only to one guide? Sounds fabulous to me.
>>
>>
> You can use the "git checkout" command to grab an individual file or an
> entire directory from a different branch. Here's how I did it for the Swfit
> docs:
>
> git checkout master -- doc/src/docbkx/openstack-object-storage-admin
>
> This works well for Swift docs because they're all inside a single
> directory, but with the other guides it would be trickier because some of
> the files are in the common directory.
>


That's a great trick, thanks for sharing!
Anne


>
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> Lorin Hochstein
> Lead Architect - Cloud Services
> Nimbis Services, Inc.
> www.nimbisservices.com
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