Updating a live theme safely?

As far as my understanding you want to make changes in the theme without affecting the main theme so For this purpose the best practice would be creating child theme. So you can edit this child theme and your main theme will be safe. So, you can update the theme safely.

Refer to WordPressCodex on creating child theme.

Hope this solves the problem.

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