How do I get the right version to contribute to rails 2.3.x

rubyonrails-core
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Hi all,

I just got my first fix into rails (https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/ projects/8994/tickets/4080). And it tastes like more :slight_smile:

Creating the patch for 3.0 was easy because the current master branch points to the 3.0 branch. But adding the fix to 2.3 was a bit difficult. I switched to the 2.3-stable branch, but that provided a patch file of around 5 Mbyte. Probably containing all patches since the last 2.3 stable version.

What is the correct procedure to checkout the latest and active master version of rails 2.3?

Stijn

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You have to work on a clean copy of 2-3-stable branch. I saw your 5MB patch and i think you mix 2-3-stable things with master things. from scratch

git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git git checkout 2-3-stable

and now you are on a clean 2-3-stable, patch as you patch on master. but do git format-patch 2-3-stable --stdout > file.path

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More than that, you even rectified it. Thanks for that!

I just ran the default command to format the patch;

git format-patch master --stdout > your-patch-file.diff

Now I see where I went wrong. Thanks a million!

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You're welcome Stijnster, the patch was yours. I'm not a patch stealer :).