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author | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2009-04-05 20:23:36 +0200 |
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committer | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2009-04-05 20:24:04 +0200 |
commit | 802b26e78d0ab33440989d03d96c3be3f211c420 (patch) | |
tree | a27ae31054e5c2c6c6d9b5762cf3300c174db609 /patch.man | |
parent | 018b7b56c0baa515d924dbdbe8bb1a7d5a91307f (diff) | |
download | patch-802b26e78d0ab33440989d03d96c3be3f211c420.tar.gz |
Revert (almost) to the original asymmetric hunk behavior and document that
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@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ If that fails, and the maximum fuzz factor is set to 2 or more, the first two and last two lines of context are ignored, and another scan is made. (The default maximum fuzz factor is 2.) +.PP +Hunks with less prefix context than suffix context (after applying fuzz) +must apply at the start of the file if their first line number is\ 1. Hunks +with more prefix context than suffix context (after applying fuzz) must apply +at the end of the file. +.PP If .B patch cannot find a place to install that hunk of the patch, it puts the |