Re: [9front] patch: import replacement for ape/patch

[Amavect <amavect@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, 24 May 2022 16:39:28 +0000
Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com> wrote:

> Quoting RFC4263:

Neat, but I have no clue how to configure process= in claws mail.
Since application/x-troff-man is nonstandard,
I'll just default it to text/troff and call it a day.

> While much documentation for specific troffs indeed says that blank 
> lines have the same effect as `.sp 1`—they do implement that, after 
> all—that behavior is not ubiquitous.  A warning is given, for
> example, by mandoc.  Quoting mandoc(1):

There's disagreement from others, but we can all agree that .PP is the
correct choice for new paragraphs.
It has slightly shorter spacing than a blank line in page.
Attached is the final revision for ori's patch man page.

Thanks,
Amavect

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from postmaster@9front:
The following attachment had content that we can't
prove to be harmless.  To avoid possible automatic
execution, we changed the content headers.
The original header was:

	Content-Type: text/troff
	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
	Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=patch.man

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.TH PATCH 1
.SH NAME
patch \- apply diffs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B patch
[
.B -R
]
[
.B -p
.I nstrip
]
[
.B -f
.I maxfuzz
]
[
.I patch ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Patch
takes a patch file in unified diff format and applies the differences to the file tree.
If the file is not an exact match, it will search forwards and
backwards for the surrounding context up to
.I maxfuzz
lines.
.PP
The following options are supported:
.TP
.B -R
Reverse direction of the patch. Additions become removals,
and the new and old file names are swapped.
.TP
.BI -p \ nstrip
Remove the prefix containing
.I nstrip
leading slashes from each file path in the diff file.
.TP
.BI -f \ maxfuzz
Controls how far
.I patch
searches for context when applying a patch.
If not specified, this defaults to 250 lines.
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR diff (1),
.IR git/export (1)
.SH BUGS
.PP
The output of
.B diff -c
is not handled.
.PP
Reject files and backups are not supported.
.PP
All files are processed in memory, which limits
the files handled to 2 gigabytes on 32-bit systems.