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