how to add patch

[Diez B. Roggisch]

jimgardener <jimgardener at gmail.com> writes:

> hi
> I have some demo python  code hosted on a public host that uses
> subversion..and I want to modify one of the files using a patch file
> handed to me by another person..How do I do this?Generally I checkout
> the code and make the change and then commit again..I have never done
> through patch..Can somebody tell me how to do this?

This is not really python specific. Which is not to say that you are
wrong here asking, but there are a bazillion of sources out there to
help you. Google. Read man-pages. Try it out.

My first attempt would be

  cd my_project
  patch -p0 < the.patch

But it might not work, depending on how the patch was created.

Diez