Top "Patch" questions

A patch is a piece of software designed to fix problems with, or update a computer program or its supporting data.

Applying a .patch file

I want to apply a .patch file to one file. I placed both in the same folder and I tried …

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git: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address

I have a patch-file. I want to apply this patch to my code in git repository. When I used subversion …

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Why is git apply of a patch with binary files not creating the binary files?

I have a git patch with two binary files (it's libraries, newly added). I tried to apply the patches but …

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Git apply patch fails silently (no errors but nothing happens)

I'm trying to apply a patch, and git apply patch doesn't give me any errors: sashoalm@SASHOALM-PC /c/Workspace/tesseract-git/…

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showing differences within a line in diff output

This StackOverflow answer has an image of KDiff3 highlighting intra-line differences. Does someone know of a tool which can show …

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How to use google-diff-match-patch C# library?

I am looking at http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/ and have downloaded the file. When I look at it …

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Git apply skips patches

I'm trying to apply a patch that includes binary files with git apply but only the files are added. I …

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memory exhausted : for large files using diff

I am trying to create a patch using two large size folders (~7GB). Here is how I'm doing it : $ diff …

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(git) diff output relative path?

I need to get some diffs in my repo that are not relative to the base of the repo, but …

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How to modify the Linux kernel to change the version string that uname returns?

I'm working with an old (2.6.33.2) version of embedded Linux and have been asked to change the kernel so that differently …

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