Patch mode allows you to stage parts of a changed file, instead of the entire file. This allows you to make concise, well-crafted commits that make for an easier to read history. This feature can improve the quality of the commits. It also makes it easy to remove parts of the changes in a file that were only there for debugging purposes - prior to the commit without having to go back to the editor.

It allows you to see the changes (delta) to the code that you are trying to add, and lets you add them (or not) separately from each other using an interactive prompt. Here's how to use it:

from the command line, either use

• git add -p

You probably get your environment variables using built-in PHP functions such as getenv or $_ENV, but did you know that you can do it in an elegant way getting the value of an environment variable in the properly PHP data type with the powerful library? If you are curious, just read how this energetic library can help you in your daily development workflow.

Note that in this article we'll use a famous library to load environment variables from an external file, this library is vlucas/phpdotenv.

Then, firstly, you need to install the dependencies. To do it, simply type this in your terminal:

$ composer require vlucas/phpdotenv