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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.