@myself: diff -ruN --exclude-from=..\diffexclude.txt . > ../webapp_sendas.diff patch the webapp folder as follows: patch -Np1 -d webapp-1.3.1.svn41348 < webapp_fileas.diff If you get an error like "1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file....." make sure that you have all files with unix line endings (under ubuntu: install "tofrodos" und use it like: fromdos )