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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 news article
or 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.

   However, certain other types of imperfect input require user
intervention.

* Menu:

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