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Why would anyone have to deal with diff files during regular usage?
by mememachine 10y ago
Why would anyone have to deal with diff files during regular usage?
- username223 10y agoLet's say I found a bug in some software I use, and tweaked a few lines to fix it. Now what do I do? (1) Mail a diff to the author. (2) Get an account on some random website, "fork" the code, make the tweak again, and "submit a pull request." I'll choose (1) every time, and will probably just shrug and move on if I'm forced to do (2). I've made a few throwaway GitHub accounts when I cared enough, but I usually don't bother.
- vopi181 10y agoI don't like the centralization around a proprietary software, but saying GitHub is a random site isn't fair. A lot of F/OSS people use it. Out of curiosity what happens when you want to submit say a picture to a repo?
- username223 10y agoI'm not a graphic designer, so I don't usually do that, but I'd probably email the author or development list. Projects with lots of binary files checked into version control are very different from source code, though, so I don't know how they normally operate.
- gkya 10y agoThat's what version control is about. Patches upon patches, since SCCS.
- fake-name 10y agoDiffs are an internal part of how VC works. There is literally no reason you would ever have to deal with them in their raw format.