# patch command line tool This is the tool used by the `shorebird` command line to compute the patch file for uploading to the server. This currently uses the rust `bidiff` crate to compute the patch file. and could just use the `bic` command line tool included in that crate. However we're explicitly writing our own command line to allow us to change the underlying compression without affecting the `shorebird` command line callers. ## Usage patch