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splitdiff: separate out incremental patches

Command to display splitdiff manual in Linux: $ man 1 splitdiff

NAME

splitdiff - separate out incremental patches

SYNOPSIS

splitdiff [-a] [-d] [-D dir] [-p n] [-E] [file]
splitdiff {[--help] | [--version]}

DESCRIPTION

If you have a patch file composed of several incremental patches, you can use splitdiff to separate them out. You may want to do this in preparation for re-combining them with combinediff(1).

The effect of running splitdiff is to separate its input into a set of output files, with no output file patching the same file more than once.

OPTIONS

-a

: Split out every single file-level patch.

-d

: Create file names such as a_b.c.patch for a patch that modifies a/b.c.

-D dir

: Write output files into subdirectory dir. Implies -d.

-p n

: Strip the first n components of the pathname to aid comparisons.

-E

: Don't use .patch filename extension when writing output files.

--help

: Display a short usage message.

--version

: Display the version number of splitdiff.

AUTHOR

Tim Waugh <twaugh [at] redhat.com>

: Package maintainer