Try this: http://afreshcup.com/2008/10/27/contributing-to-rails-step-by-step/
2009/3/4 Jeff Schwab <[email protected]> > > Alan Slater wrote: > > Hari Rajagopal wrote: > > >> Can someone explain how do I install patches. > > > I can’t believe that a straightforward, reasonable question like this > > went unanswered for 2 and a half years. Especially given how little info > > there is about applying or installing patches out there. > > Could you please provide a little information on how one submits patches > for rails? I've gotten as far as git clone, but then everything goes to > hell. (I can be more specific if anyone feels like throwing me a bone.) > I've been trying to follow along with this screencast: > > http://railscasts.com/episodes/113-contributing-to-rails-with-git > > > > This will usually look like this:- > > > > $ patch -p0 -i name_of_patch_here > > > > I say ‘usually’ because, to be honest, I don’t know what -p0 or -i do, > > but it works for me. > > -p is for stripping leading parts of the path, e.g. -p1 is used to turn > absolute paths into relative paths. -p0 should be a no-op. -i means > you're going to pass the patch file as an argument, rather than letting > the patch program read stdin. The above should be equivalent to: > > $ patch < name_of_patch_here > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
