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Once you have fixed the bug, you can send a patch with your changes. How do you this? Check the [http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html developers help] page. | Once you have fixed the bug, you can send a patch with your changes. How do you this? Check the [http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html developers help] page. | ||
=== Checking out the | === Checking out the package source === | ||
You can also checkout the package in question using svn. For example if you | You can also checkout the package in question using svn. For example if you want to checkout the <tt>general</tt> package you would run | ||
<pre>svn co https://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main general general_to_debug</pre> | <pre>svn co https://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main general general_to_debug</pre> | ||
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This will create a folder <code>general_to_debug</code> in your current directory. You can hack away as much as you can and then produce the | This will create a folder <code>general_to_debug</code> in your current directory. You can hack away as much as you can and then produce the | ||
patch and send it to the mailing list. | patch and send it to the mailing list. | ||
Many of the packages now use Mercurial (hg) repositories for version control. To checkout, for example, <tt>odepkg</tt>: | |||
<pre>hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/odepkg odepkg_to_debug</pre> | |||
=== Contributing new file or bundle of files === | === Contributing new file or bundle of files === | ||