How to apply patches?

Hello,

I want to update v5.20.00 to its patch version. Can I do this only applying the differences to my v5.20.00 (using svn) or I have to download the whole patch version and compile it independently of v5.20.00? Thanks lot in advance.

Best regards,
Gia

Hi,

You can do cd $ROOTSYS; svn diff -r24538 https://root.cern.ch/svn/root/branches/v5-20-00-patches | patch -p0

However you might be better off checkout the patch branch and recompile, since it would make it easier to download future patches …

Cheers,
Philippe.