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Linus: I'm surprised that people still even use patch [instead of Git] (2017)
- darkpuma 7y agoSo am I...
- ksaj 7y agoNot everything goes on github though. I occasionally use patch for local things because it keeps such a clean change log. I've also used it for various translation hacks. eg: delete everything between quotes in a copy, create the diff, edit everything in a significantly reduced file with the necessary changes being one right after another, and then using patch to complete the translation. It might sound round-about, but it is amazingly efficient.