[OSM-dev] Newbie question

[Thomas Wood]

2008/11/9 Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk>:
> I've done a search for answers unsuccessfully, and while I'm a bit reluctant to ask while people are suggesting each other smell, I'm hoping for some non-personal advice.
>
> I recently added an area to the map tagged as landuse=construction. This doesn't render in Osmarender, so I looked into patching the stylesheets, which I did and manually rendering the relevant tile with the Tiles at Home client rendered it fine. I mentioned this on the Tiles at Home list, with a request for information about how to make this an official change. There doesn't seem to be an official procedure, and I was advised to either create a patch for someone to perhaps apply (which I've since sent to the Tiles at Home list) or get an SVN account if I was going to do such things on an ongoing basis (which I also now have, but couldn't work out how to apply my patch file - it complained about version issues or something when I tried).

The standard procedure would be to create a ticket on trac, attach the
patch to it, and assign to the osmarender component. Then optionally
poke a relevant person often enough to get it committed.
>
> So, at the risk I'm going to be told I smell, can anyone point a newbie to SVN to a beginner's guide on how to either amend and commit changes, or apply patch files? I did a quick Google search and the first few results I read were less then helpful.

Patch files are applied using the standard unix tools (patch), if on
windows, there's probably an alternative.
Make sure you check out the relevant tree from svn - svn co
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/....
Edit the file. then svn ci file_path
Make sure you svn up before your next edits.


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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)