[wp-hackers] Switching from SVN

[Mike Schinkel]

On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Eric Mann wrote:
> Truth be told, I've been working with WordPress for 3 years now and have
> never successfully applied a patch to my own working copy.  It usually turns
> out that the diff file on Trac is a version or 20 behind my working copy and
> SVN doesn't know how to reconcile that problem.  If I wrote the patch, I can
> always svn up and create a new diff ... but patching an existing diff back
> to my working copy has proven all but impossible.

After reading this thread and especially that last comment I'm finally feeling like much less the idiot for having asked this question:

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/990/easiest-way-to-create-a-patch-for-submission-to-wordpress-core

-Mike