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unwrapdiff - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
unwrapdiff - demangle word-wrapped patchesSYNOPSIS
| Tag | Description |
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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
| Tag | Description |
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| -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 of 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.