Create a patch file for Git from the differences of two text files, treating nonexistent files as empty

Compare files and directories.
More information: <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/diff.1.html>.
Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

diff --text --unified --new-file {{old_file}} {{new_file}} > {{diff.patch}}

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