| 48 | Using Patch Files |
Occasionally you might want to save a copy of your working copy changes without committing them to the repository. You might decide your changes aren’t yet ready for prime time and that you want to keep them for later (although in this case, creating a feature branch and checking in to the branch is safer). Alternatively, you might be working on an open source project on the Internet and not have commit access to the repository. Instead of committing your changes directly, you need to send them to someone else on the project who has commit access.
Patch files are the Unix world’s solution to this problem. A patch file is a description of changes you have made to some files. You can send the patch file to someone else who ...
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