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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 of any of them are dif-
ferent.
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@redhat.com>.
patchutils 17 January 2003 UNWRAPDIFF(1)
