Prefix.dev - the Pixi company @prefix.dev · Feb 18 rattler-build handles thousands of real world packages, and they often come with small patches. Historically, we used a mix of `git apply` and `patch`, but both have issues for cross-platform compatibility with a wide range of real-world patches. Now, we have our own Rust library
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We just published a blog post going into some detail on what makes patching source code hard: prefix.dev/blog/flickz... – it's not just the relatively unstructured diff formats. Source code also lives and breathes, and moves!