Take a look at this from the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/Becoming_A_Nutch_Developer
It shows how to create a patch from SVN. To apply a patch to your source code you would use the patch command (on linux) like this:
patch -p0 < your_patch_file.patch Dennis Kubes Manoharam Reddy wrote:
I have seen some patches been exchanged in the list. I want to know how this patch is created and how is it applied? Any pointers to tutorials on net or wiki or a plain reply here would be helpful.
