design4drupal http://default/ en Create Drupal patches with Aptana, a tutorial http://default/blog/create-drupal-patches-aptana-tutorial <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Create Drupal patches with Aptana, a tutorial</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="http://default/users/roy" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Roy</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">11-11-2009</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>If you want to contribute actual changes to the Drupal software, you have to do it through patches. Patches are a kind of text file that describe the changes in a way that lets them easily be applied to the official code base. To create them, you have to jump through a couple of hoops, especially checking out Drupal head from CVS and creating the actual patch from the changes you made.</p> <!--break--><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_2438752"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/yoroy/create-drupal-patches-with-aptana" title="Create Drupal patches with Aptana">Create Drupal patches with Aptana</a> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aptanacvstutorial-091106090322-phpapp02&stripped_title=create-drupal-patches-with-aptana" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aptanacvstutorial-091106090322-phpapp02&stripped_title=create-drupal-patches-with-aptana" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></div> <p>Contrary to popular belief among the developer community, creating patches is <em>not</em> easy for some. Using the text-only interface of the command line is a big hurdle for the more visually oriented. I finally found a way to do this CVS-checkout-and-patching thing <em>without using the command line</em> but through a free app with a graphical user interface.</p> <p>I'm sure it’s way more elaborate and slower than through the command line, but this works for me and it might for you, too. Here's a slideshow that walks you through the process, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/yoroy/create-drupal-patches-with-aptana">best viewed on Slideshare</a> as it will show the slide's notes there, which you'll need to make sense of this.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://default/drupal" hreflang="en">drupalplanet</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://default/tag/drupal" hreflang="en">Drupal</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://default/tag/aptana" hreflang="en">aptana</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://default/tag/vcs" hreflang="en">vcs</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://default/tag/tutorial" hreflang="en">tutorial</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://default/design-for-drupal" hreflang="en">design4drupal</a></div> </div> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:31:01 +0000 Roy 39 at http://default