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NAME
unwrapdiff - demangle word-wrapped patches
SYNOPSIS
unwrapdiff [-v] [file...]
unwrapdiff {[--help] | [--version]}
DESCRIPTION
unwrapdiff demangles patches that have been word-wrapped, in an attempt to make them
useful.
The corrected diff is sent to standard output. Note that you will probably need to use the
-l option when applying the patch, in order to ignore any whitespace differences there may
be.
OPTIONS
-v
Verbose operation. A list of lines that are modified in a way that might be wrong is
sent to stderr.
--help
Display a short usage message.
--version
Display the version number of unwrapdiff.
LIMITATIONS
Some heuristics are used to decide whether use a space to recombine a wrapped line, or
just join them together. Currently this is done by comparing with last three characters of
a line with the first two characters of its continuation, and using a space if any of them
are different.
The patch needs to have been valid before being word-wrapped.
The last line of a hunk is nearly always ambiguous. If the next line begins "@@",
"Index: ", "diff " or "--- " then it is taken to be complete; otherwise it is unwrapped
using the next line.
AUTHOR
Tim Waugh <twaugh AT redhat.com>
Package maintainer
patchutils 17 January 2003 UNWRAPDIFF(1)
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