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==Usage context== Developed by a programmer for other programmers, patch was frequently used for updating [[source code]] to a newer version. Because of this, many people came to associate patches with source code, whereas patches can in fact be applied to any text. ''Patched'' files do not accumulate any unneeded text, which is what some people perceive based on the English meaning of the word; patch is as capable of removing text as it is of adding it. Patches described here should not be confused with [[Patch (computing)|binary patches]], which, although can be conceptually similar, are distributed to update binary files comprising the program to a new release.
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