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NAME

6       unwrapdiff - demangle word-wrapped patches
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SYNOPSIS

9       unwrapdiff [-v] [file...]
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11       unwrapdiff {[--help] [--version]}
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DESCRIPTION

14       unwrapdiff demangles patches that have been word-wrapped, in an attempt
15       to make them useful.
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17       The corrected diff is sent to standard output. Note that you will
18       probably need to use the -l option when applying the patch, in order to
19       ignore any whitespace differences there may be.
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OPTIONS

22       -v     Verbose operation. A list of lines that are modified in a way
23              that might be wrong is sent to stderr.
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25       --help Display a short usage message.
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27       --version
28              Display the version number of unwrapdiff.
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LIMITATIONS

31       Some heuristics are used to decide whether use a space to recombine a
32       wrapped line, or just join them together. Currently this is done by
33       comparing with last three characters of a line with the first two
34       characters of its continuation, and using a space of any of them are
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37       The patch needs to have been valid before being word-wrapped.
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39       The last line of a hunk is nearly always ambiguous. If the next line
40       begins “@@”, “Index: ”, “diff ” or “--- ” then it is taken to be
41       complete; otherwise it is unwrapped using the next line.
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AUTHOR

44       Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>.
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