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There's a similarenter link description here It's on the below link.

I have been given a patch on an email and I need to create a patch file. I have just pasted the contents into a text file and saved it as 'All Files' as file.patch. As far as I can tell this is correct.

This patch will apply to multiple files in a library.

I'm not sure how to apply the patch. I'm guessing that this is done using MinGW but I'm not sure how. I have set the above directory to the library in the command line like this..

cd c:\library

I place the patch file in this libraries base director and write the name of the patch. 

file.patch

When I do this (I have tortoise svn installed on my pc) a the patch file opens up with a bunch of colors (Red/Yellor/Green) highlighting some of the text in the file.

Does this mean the patch automatically applies or am I going about this completely the wrong way?

I can't put the patch on the internet but the explanation above is clear.

If I have it all wrong would someone mind explaining how I apply a patch using MinGW on Windows? Thanks

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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11639036/apply-a-patch-file-in-windows-using-mingw – user3419537 Nov 23 '15 at 12:57
  • Yes I was about to add that link to this thread but I can't make any sense of it. For example, what does this mean? "patch – domonica Nov 24 '15 at 11:36
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    [`patch`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_(Unix)) is a unix program for patching files. The link I posted shows how to install an equivalent for a Windows MinGW installation. `patch < /path/to/stdio.patch` tells `patch` to apply `stdio.patch` found in the directory `/path/to/`. The patch file contains the information about which files to make the changes to – user3419537 Nov 24 '15 at 11:58

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