redhat man page for splitdiff

SPLITDIFF(1)															      SPLITDIFF(1)

NAME
       splitdiff - separate out incremental patches

SYNOPSIS
       splitdiff [-p n] [file]

       splitdiff {--help | --version}

DESCRIPTION
       If  you	have  a patch file composed of several incremental patches, you can use splitdiff to separate them out. You may want to do this in
       preparation for re-combining them with combinediff(1).

       The effect of running splitdiff is to separate its input into a set of output files, with no output file patching the same file	more  than
       once.

       It is not intended to split out every single file-level patch. For that, use lsdiff and sed.

OPTIONS
       -p n   Strip the first n components of the pathname to aid comparisons.

       --help Display a short usage message.

       --version
	      Display the version number of splitdiff.

SEE ALSO
       combinediff(1), lsdiff(1)

AUTHOR
       Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>.

patchutils							    11 Oct 2002 						      SPLITDIFF(1)