Subversion Patches

Sometimes I need to create a patch for the local changes of my Subversion working copy. This can be achieved very easily using the following command (typically issued from the root directory of the checkout):

svn diff > ~/local_changes.diff

The patch can then be applied on a different working copy by applying the command:

patch -p0 -i ~/local_changes.diff

The command output will tell which parts of the patch have been applied successfully and which ones, if any, have failed.

If you work with IntelliJ IDEA, I suggest you both create and apply the patch with IDEA, since patches created by Subversion do not work well when applied in IDEA.