Patching with Git

About patching

Generally a patch – is a file containing source code differences. In a patch you can specify which line in which file should be added, updated or deleted. The structure of such file is standardized – that means if you create a patch file in Windows you can easily implement it on Linux.

Let’s imagine you have a project you work on. You have a production server and a development workstation. Before starting your work you copied the production source code to the workstation and initiated a Git repo there. After you finish updating you need to apply updates on the production server.

How can you do that? The easiest way is to create a patch.

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Subversion vs Git

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Comparison Subversion vs Git can be interesting for a junior developer. Git and SVN both are version control systems (VCS). Their main purpose is to allow developer track project development progress. With VCS you can revert your project’s code to any version in the past. It’s extremely useful in bug fixing and new feature development.

There are many VCS and today I want to compare probably two most popular of them – Git and SVN.

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