# Version control: is Git any useful for solutions built on FileMaker?

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**Created:** [March 22, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/version-control-is-git-any-useful-for-solutions-built-on-filemaker/3466 "2023-03-22T00:20:49Z")\
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Merging would be a game changer! That's my #1 hurdle preventing us from any sort of feature/bugfix branching currently on the vertical solution I maintain.

And yeah, that's really on Claris to provide some kind of trustworthy "patch" system.

It would be tricky, but I do believe that community developers like yourself would be able to provide the complementary tools: adequate branch diffing and comparison, and automation/UI around the patch process. i.e. Claris doesn't need to do _everything_ to make this a reality.

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