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 Applying Imperfect Patches
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    `patch' tries to skip any leading text in the patch file, apply the
 diff, and then skip any trailing text.  Thus you can feed a mail
 message directly to `patch', and it should work.  If the entire diff is
 indented by a constant amount of white space, `patch' automatically
 ignores the indentation.  If a context diff contains trailing carriage
 return on each line, `patch' automatically ignores the carriage return.
 If a context diff has been encapsulated by prepending `- ' to lines
 beginning with `-' as per Internet RFC 934
 (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc934.txt), `patch' automatically
 unencapsulates the input.
 
    However, certain other types of imperfect input require user
 intervention or testing.
 

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* Changed White Space When tabs and spaces don't match exactly.
* Reversed Patches    Applying reversed patches correctly.
* Inexact             Helping `patch' find close matches.
* Dry Runs            Predicting what `patch' will do.
 

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