Re: [Gimp-developer] the Gimp lcms.c plug-in

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On 24.07.2012 23:16, Elle Stone wrote:

> How does one apply a patch? What does "apply a patch" mean?

You use the patch program to apply the changes that are contained in the 
attachments to the bug report to the GIMP code.

The usage example from the Wikipedia article about patch should do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_%28Unix%29

patch < foo.diff

This could be executed in the top directory of your GIMP source tree.

There are parameters to adjust for differences in the diff files 
regarding both your and the patch author's systems, see 
http://linux.die.net/man/1/patch - -p is the most commonly used 
parameter to get rid of leading folders in the paths used in the diff 
file, for example.


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HTH,
Michael