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For those who just don't Git it

The Stack Overflow Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Patch Algebra in Version Control

Arthur Brightman: PatchAlgebra applies to binary files as well. When you're describing changes, when you're describing what happens in the change, you might say things like, oh, Alice today introduced that file. And the file is like two gigabytes in size. So by modeling the actual operation, you can be like, okay, I can apply this patch without knowing what's in the file.

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