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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 compar-
     ing 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; other-
     wise it is unwrapped using the next line.

AUTHOR
     Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
	 Package maintainer

patchutils			 17 January 2003		   UNWRAPDIFF(1)
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