Re: Q: What SVN URLs to use when creating patches?

On Jun 15, 2007, at 18:16 , James Britt wrote:

> I'm working on a short screencast to help explain how to contribute  
> to the Ruby source code docs.  The svn URLs in the guidelines are  
> wrong:
>
>
> http://ruby-doc.org/documentation-guidelines.html
>
> For fixing code comments and docs in the current release, what  
> should be pulled from svn?
>
> I *think* it's
>
>   svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8_6/

As I understand it, it is best to go against trunk and, if needed,  
also supply a patch against ruby_1_8, not ruby_1_8_6. The branching/ 
tag model should be from least specific to most specific:

	trunk -> ruby_1_8 -> ruby_1_8_6