Linux | Patch Source Files With Diff Files

Published: 29 March 2019
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Understanding diff files and how to use them along with the patch command to patch files. Patching Suckless dwm is used as an example at the end.

Notes:

[out] represents the less than sign.

What is a patch? What is a diff? What is a git diff?

Generating a diff file, generating a diff with git

Patching:
patch -p1 [out] patch.diff

-p refers to the directory level that the file to patch is on


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