unwrapdiff (1) Linux Manual Page
unwrapdiff – demangle word-wrapped patches
Synopsis
- unwrapdiff [-v] [file…]
- unwrapdiff {[–help] | [–version]}
Description
unwrapdiff 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 comparing 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; otherwise it is unwrapped using the next line.
Author
Tim Waugh <twaugh [at] redhat.com>- Package maintainer