SPLITDIFF(1)

💖 SPLITDIFF(1) 💖

okay bestie, so splitdiff is a little tool from the patchutils fam, and it's literally the manual page for it. buckle up, it's cute and it's useful 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

splitdiff — separate out incremental patches 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

splitdiff [-a] [-d] [-D dir] [-p n] [-E] [file]

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

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so picture this: you've got a patch file that's actually several incremental patches all mushed together 😭 and you want them apart. that's exactly what splitdiff is for. you might wanna do this so you can re-combine them later with combinediff(1) — it's giving prep work, it's giving glow-up, it's giving organization 💅

the effect of running splitdiff is that it separates its input into a set of output files, and no output file patches the same file more than once. periodt.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -a — split out every single file-level patch. all of them. no skips. 💯
• -d — create file names like a_b.c.patch for a patch that modifies a/b.c. slashes become underscores, iconic ✨
• -D dir — write the output files into the subdirectory dir. lowkey important: this implies -d, so you get the cute file names automatically 🫶
• -p n — strip the first n components of the pathname, which helps with comparisons 🔍
• -E — don't use the .patch filename extension when writing output files. sometimes you just don't want the extension, and that's valid 🍓
• --help — display a short usage message. a lil snack of info 🧚
• --version — display the version number of splitdiff 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• combinediff(1)
• lsdiff(1)

go look at those too, iykyk 💜

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

• Package maintainer 👑

this page is from patchutils, dated 4 Nov 2014. slay, thanks for reading bestie, mwah 💅💖