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

Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Got it.  Thanks.

James