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splitpatch(1)			   2026-06-13			   splitpatch(1)

NAME
     splitpatch - split a patch up into files or hunks

SYNOPSIS
       splitpatch [options]

DESCRIPTION
     Divide a patch or diff file into pieces. The split can made by file or by
     hunk basis. This makes is possible to separate changes that might not be
     desirable, or assemble a patch into more coherent set of changes.

     The hunk option makes it possible to compare similar patches on a
     hunk-by-hunk basis using a tool like interdiff(1) from the patchutils pack-
     age.

OPTIONS
     -H, --hunk, --hunks
	 Split patch by hunks instead of the default: by file.

     -f, --fullname
	 Use the full path of filenames to determine the patch filename.

     -h, --help
	 Display help and exit

     -V, --version
	 Output version information and exit.

EXAMPLES
     Have you ever been working on code, gone off on a side tangent and then re-
     alized you don't have a patch for the original issue you set out to ad-
     dress?  When you run "diff -u" or some other diff command, you discover
     that you have made multiple sets of changes; some you want to submit, oth-
     ers you don't. What you really want to do is break those changes apart and
     apply only the ones you want. This is where splitpatch comes into play,
     breaking up the patch by source file:

	 splitpatch changes.patch

     Or to split the patch file into individual hunks which can later be applied
     using the patch(1) command:

	 splitpatch --hunks changes.patch

ENVIRONMENT
     None.

FILES
     The --hunk option writes sequentially numbered files in the current direc-
     tory named for the source file to be patched followed by the sequence num-
     ber: "*-NNN.patch".

     Otherwise, the split patch files are named by the source file being
     patched.

STANDARDS
     None.

AVAILABILITY
     https://github.com/benjsc/splitpatch

SEE ALSO
     dehtmldiff(1) editdiff(1) filterdiff(1) fixcvsdiff(1) flipdiff(1)
     grepdiff(1) interdiff(1) lsdiff(1) patch(1) recountdiff(1) rediff(1) split-
     diff(1) unwrapdiff(1) wiggle(1)

AUTHORS
     Program was written by Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>, Benjamin
     Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>. Enhancements by Jari Aalto
     <jari.aalto@cante.net>.

     This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>.  Re-
     leased under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later ver-
     sion. For more information about the license, visit
     <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

splitpatch			   2025-02-26			   splitpatch(1)

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