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Hi Reham,
Linux rocks, in my opinion creating a Linux VM is great because it's easier/faster to manage in Linux. (My opinion, some people will disagree).
What do you mean by applying patches? Do you mean .patch files created with diff?
Take a look to TortoiseMerge available for download here

Cheers,

I have some .diff files and I don't know how to get them worked.
shall I download TortoiseMerge for that?

Yes, download/extract, then start TortoiseMerge and choose Apply unified diff
The directory you select should be relative to the directory in the first line of the patch / diff file.
Cheers!

I've downloaded TortoiseMerge but after diff file and directory selction, nothing happened!

Can you please upload the said patch file please?

thank you !!

What's your Redmine version please?

Redmine version: 2.3.1.stable

I didn't know how to apply patches :(

Hey,

I checked #8488 and it seems you were using a patch too old for 2.3.1
I applied this version of the patch to the issue.rb model of 2.3.1
It seems that you are right, TortoiseMerge doesn't seem to work correctly startalone (without TortoiseSVN).
I cheated and used Linux:

patch < private_issue_watchers_2.2_FIXED_5.diff

Cheers,

thanks a lot but I don't know how to apply patches in windows

I already applied for you the patch of the file attached earlier (issue.rb) so you just need to replace it in app/models.
As TortoiseMerge doesn't seem to work, you could try using Cygwin: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15543046/how-to-use-diff-and-patch-in-cygwin-on-windows
Maybe there is simpler for example using TortoiseSVN, some Googling may be required.
Cheers!

Yes I replaced (issue.rb) you gave me, but it didn't work!
anyways, thank you so much.