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🩹 Patches ​

A patch is a standalone file that captures a set of changes — independent of any branch or remote. At Tellia, we use them to move work across worktrees: you develop in one directory, export the changes as a patch, then apply and open a PR against main, staging, or production without needing to touch the original branch.

The patches/ folder at the repo root is the drop zone. It is gitignored — patches are transient, not shared.

Apply a patch ​

bash
git apply patches/my-changes.patch

Then open a PR as usual.

Create a patch ​

bash
# From unstaged changes
git diff > patches/my-changes.patch

# From staged changes
git diff --cached > patches/my-changes.patch

# From a specific commit range
git diff main..HEAD > patches/my-changes.patch
  • Pull requests — opening a PR once the patch is applied
  • Backport — automated way to propagate a merged PR to another branch
  • Git worktrees — the typical context where patches are useful