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How to create a patch

Windows

• If you use a Subversion client (Subclipse, TortoiseSVN, etc.) and want to avoid having line endings with ^M you will need to update the Subversion config.
  • This is located at: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Subversion\config
  • Take the settings from this page: http://www.apache.org/dev/svn-eol-style.txt
    and add them to the bottom of the config file.
• Different Subversion clients may have different ways of creating paths within the patch files.
  • TortoiseSVN creates relative paths within the patch files, which makes them more portable.
  • Subclipse, on the other hand, creates absolute paths within the patch files (C:\Documents and Settings\...) which need to be edited by hand with a text editor before they can be used on someone else's system. This is actually a problem of Eclipse's 'Create a Patch' routine as can be seen by googling 'subclipse patch absolute relative path', but it affects Subclipse.
• See http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm

UNIX

• svn diff DIRECTORY/FILE > patch.txt

How to submit a patch

Please upload patches to Bugzilla instead sending them via the mailing lists.

How to apply a patch

Windows

• Download patch exec for Windows
• start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> Edit Use Variable Path (...;C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin
• start -> Run -> cmd -> patch --help

UNIX

• patch -p0 < patch.txt

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