Steps to create a Pull Request

1. Create a JIRA issue here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT (e.g., OODT-xxx where xxx is the issue ID)
2. Sign up and login to Github
3. Fork the Apache OODT repository (https://github.com/apache/oodt / https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/)
4. Clone your repository(eg git clone git@github.com:myuser/oodt.git)
5. Edit files
6. git commit -a m "OODT-xxx my fix for issue xyz"
7. git push
8. Then go back to github and create a pull request(https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/)

Steps to create a patch file

1. Create

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1. a JIRA issue here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT (e.g., OODT-xxx where xxx is the issue ID)

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1.  Check out source code (e.g.,

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1. git clone https://

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1. git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt

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1. .git)

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1.  Edit files (e.g., src/main/bin/url-downloader)

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1.  git status (make sure it shows things have changed)

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2.  git commit -a -m "OODTxxx my commit to fix xyz"
3.  git show HEAD

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1. > OODT-xxx.yourname.yyMMdd.

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1. patch (e.g., yyMMdd is the date)

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1.  Attach your patch file obtained from step #4 to issue at step #0 (e.g., https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-756)