unwrapdiff
demangle word-wrapped patches
Synopsis
unwrapdiff [-v]
[file...]
unwrapdiff
{[--help] | [--version]}
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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[:dot:]com>
Package maintainer