Redmine with MariaDB

Cherries!I'm in the process of setting up Redmine (version 1.0-stable) on an Ubuntu 8.04 virtual machine. Getting a recent enough gem and rails is less fun than you might imagine, but the big issue I came across was a bug in the database model, which makes MySQL 5.1 (MariaDB 5.1 in my case) barf on installation.

There is a fix, but I am running from a git clone didn't want to download and apply a diff file to that repository. A quick google found what I need: the git cherry-pick command. It allows you to grab a single commit and apply its changes to your branch. In my case:

git cherry-pick a628b0f186cf4d182ce5cee1a497ad42c5246406

Because all commits have a unique label, when 1.0.1 is released and I update my git clone, I won't suffer merge conflicts from this already-applied change. Lovely :-)

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Because all commits have a unique label, when 1.0.1 is released and I update my git clone, I won't suffer merge conflicts from this already-applied change. Lovely :-)

ah, but git commit IDs are based (in part) on the history that precedes them, and on the person doing the commit, so if you "git log" in your own redmine tree you'll see that the patch in question has a different commit ID than the one you cherry-pick'd...

you still shouldn't have problems thanks to git's superior merge smarts, but the individual patch tracking you're thinking of only happens in darcs...

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