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| -rw-r--r-- | textproc/wiggle/pkg-descr | 16 |
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diff --git a/textproc/wiggle/pkg-descr b/textproc/wiggle/pkg-descr index fa69a0021148..8ac8151fafcc 100644 --- a/textproc/wiggle/pkg-descr +++ b/textproc/wiggle/pkg-descr @@ -1 +1,15 @@ -intentionally empty +The main function of wiggle is to apply a patch to a file in a similar +manner to the patch(1) program. + +The distinctive difference of wiggle is that it will attempt to apply a +patch even if the "before" part of the patch doesn't match the target +file perfectly. This is achieved by breaking the file and patch into +words and finding the best alignment of words in the file with words in +the patch. Once this alignment has been found, any differences (word- +wise) in the patch are applied to the file as best as possible. + +Also, wiggle will (in some cases) detect changes that have already been +applied, and will ignore them. + -- Neil Brown + +WWW: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=wiggle;a=summary |