Creating a Patch File with Your Terminal Machine

 If you’re an aspiring programmer or coder, there’s one particularly important skill that you must master if you want to be able to fix errors in your programs or update them over time—and that’s how to create a patch file with your terminal machine.

How to Install Git

In order to create patches, you need to have Git installed on your system. There are several ways to install Git, but we recommend installing it through your operating system's package manager. For example, if you're using Ubuntu Linux, run sudo apt-get install git from your terminal command line. If you're running Windows through Cygwin or Git Bash (or another terminal emulation program), then use its respective package manager. The list of installation commands for Cygwin and Bash can be found on their websites, linked above. Once installed, all you have to do is type git --version into your terminal window (that is: git --version) and ensure that it says git version 2.1; if not, repeat your installation steps until it does!

How to Create an Application on GitHub

Creating an application on GitHub is easy and intuitive. It can be done through your account settings or simply by creating a file, committing it, and pushing it to your repository. To create an application through your account settings: From any page of your account, click Account Settings in the top right corner of your screen. Click New Application. Fill out all required fields and save. Once you have created an application on GitHub, you will need to fork someone else's repository to begin adding files to develop your own software: Find a repository that fits what you are looking for; usually they will be labeled as open source.

How to Checkout a Previous Version

In some situations, you might want to work on an older version of your code. Perhaps there was a bug in one of your commits that's fixed now and you want to see what it looked like. Or maybe your team decides to switch from Mercurial to Git. In any case, at some point you'll need to get a copy of a previous version of your code, especially if it's not online anymore. Here are four different ways you can do that.

How to Create a Patch File

Use gistablog to create a patch file from your terminal machine. This is an easy way to share code or text using your own personal copy-paste box. A patch file will help you manage your changes and will allow you to upload files as well as sharing them in real time. If you don’t have some of these programs, go ahead and download them; you won’t regret it! The instructions are very easy, but if you are unfamiliar with creating software packages, just ask your local IT person. They should be able to help you out. Once you have all of that set up, follow these steps:

1) Create a new folder on your desktop called patchfiles (or whatever name you want). In that folder, create another one called testfile.txt (or whatever name). Then open up a new document and type out something like Patch file testfile.txt created by Gistblog on January 25th 2017 at 5:00pm EST using gistablog version 1.0b1′′ into it, making sure that there are no spaces between any words and that everything is capitalized correctly.

How to Apply a Patch File

The patch file can be created using your terminal. The first step is to gist your file, or make it an archive. To do so you can use a command like: gzip filename.txt This will make a new file called filename.txt.gz. The next step is to apply that patch file: patch -p0 < filename.txt.gz Use -p0 because we are not telling it where any changes need to be made in our original files, just adding them all on top of each other...