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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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