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            "value": "\n          <p><a href=\"\/daily\/2025\/01\/13\/patches\">Applying patch files<\/a> is a common way to customise and extend open source software, and how we used to submit changes to Drupal before issue forks and merge requests were added to Drupal.org.<\/p>\n\n<p>Some software, such as dwm and st from suckless.org are released as minimal versions that you patch to add features to.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you find a line of code that you want to add, edit or delete, a patch file describes the changes so you can re-apply them whenever the source file changes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Patching offers unlimited customisation and flexibility.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whatever changes you want to make, you can.<\/p>\n\n<p>The downside is you need to maintain any patches you've written.<\/p>\n\n<p>If a change is made that causes your patch to no longer apply, you'll need to update the patch.<\/p>\n\n<p>There are some patches I commonly apply to Drupal projects, but I'll try to either contribute the changes back to the Drupal so I no longer need the patch or make the change in a custom module.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sometimes, though, <a href=\"\/daily\/2025\/01\/14\/patching-drupal\">patching is the only option<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n        ",
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