Broken/How to apply a patch

Introduction

This page explains how you can apply a patch file. Patch is a standard format, and there are many options for how to apply one. Pick the one that is easiest for you.

Apply a Patch in Windows using gnuwin32

• Download and extract patch for windows from sourceforge I placed the patch.exe binary in C:\bin

• Download and extract Moodle somewhere. eg: C:\moodle

• Download the patch file and place it in the same directory you put Moodle (C:\moodle\password-policy-17.diff)

• Open the patch file with Wordpad, and click 'File' >> 'Save as...', choose a different name for the file eg ('mynewpatch.diff') and "Save as type" >> 'Text Document - MS-DOS Format'

• Open up a command text window, and type:

   cd \moodle
   c:\bin\patch.exe -p1 < mynewpatch.diff

• You should get an output similar to this:

   patching file admin/settings/security.php
   patching file lang/en_utf8/admin.php
   patching file lib/moodlelib.php
   patching file login/change_password.php
   patching file login/signup.php
   patching file user/edit.php
   Hunk #1 succeeded at 430 (offset 2 lines).

Apply a Patch in Linux using "patch"

use something like: patch -p1 < patchfile.diff

See Also

• Development:How_to_create_a_patch