RECOUNTDIFF(1)

💖 recountdiff(1) — recompute patch counts and offsets 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the recountdiff page — that's RECOUNTDIFF(1) to the section-1 girlies, and she is so much chiller than she looks. sit down, grab a strawberry, we're fixing diff headers together 🍓

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

recountdiff [file...]

recountdiff {[--help] | [--version]}

like, you can hand her a bunch of *file*s, or you can just ask her for --help / --version and nothing else. those are the two moods 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so recountdiff recomputes the counts and offsets in unified context diffs. yes literally, that's her whole job, she's an icon 👑

and the way she does it?? two passes, bestie, a two-pass queen:

1. first the counts get corrected — she does this by inspection of the actual patch lines 👀 like she actually reads the receipts, she does not trust the header
2. then the offsets are adjusted according to the computed counts ✨

then the corrected diff gets sent to standard output — so pipe it somewhere, redirect it, do whatever, she's not writing files for you 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — display a short usage message 🫶 (a little "here's how to use me" moment)
• --version — display the version number of recountdiff ⭐ (her birth chart, basically)

😭 LIMITATIONS 😭

not everything can be saved, and I need you to hear me on this.

there are some things that cannot be dealt with. if you've removed the first context line in a hunk, for example, there is no way for recountdiff to know that. like, the evidence is gone, bestie 💀

for more precise fixing up, use rediff(1) — she uses the original and modified diffs, so she has way more to work with. different girl, different superpowers 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• rediff(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

• Package maintainer 👑

🦋 A LITTLE SIGN-OFF 🦋

this page came to you from the patchutils package, dated 5 July 2002 — vintage, iconic, still slaying. now go recount those diffs, you're doing amazing sweetie 🎀✨💖