From: why the lucky stiff Date: 2006-08-24T00:32:44+09:00 Subject: Re: a ruby-core primer On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:16:19AM +0900, Justin Bailey wrote: > It might be useful if the provided a list of tags and the version they > match up with for patching (i.e. if you want to patch 1.8, use tag X. > If you want to patch against 1.9, use tag Y). I have submitted a patch > against 1.8 but I don't think I used the right version and my patch > still sits untouched on RubyForge. The only two relevant tags right now are RUBY_1_8 and HEAD, but I will definitely see that these get altered or updated with new tags in the future. > Maybe even providing an example of the patching process would help? > I.e. How to check out, how to create the diff, and where to go to > submit it. Suggestions if the patch should be multiple files or single > files would help too. A diff command is given: diff -wur /dir/to/ruby-1.8-unpatched /dir/to/ruby-1.8-patched And the URL to Rubyforge bug tracker as well: (It's the first link in "Improving Ruby, Patch by Patch".) Are you saying it might be nicer as an ordered list, steps 1 to 3 sort of? Okay, I'll see about this. Thankyou! _why