NAME

       splitpatch - split a patch up into files or hunks

SYNOPSIS

         splitpatch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Divide a patch or diff file into pieces. The split can made by file or by hunk basis. This
       makes is possible to separate changes that might not be desirable, or assemble a patch
       into more coherent set of changes.

       The hunk option makes it possible to compare similar patches on a hunk-by-hunk basis using
       a tool like interdiff(1) from the patchutils package.

OPTIONS

       -H, --hunk, --hunks
           Split patch by hunks instead of the default: by file.

       -h, --help
           Display help and exit

       -V, --version
           Output version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

       Have you ever been working on code, gone off on a side tangent and then realized you don't
       have a patch for the original issue you set out to address?  When you run "diff -u" or
       some other diff command, you discover that you have made multiple sets of changes; some
       you want to submit, others you don't. What you really want to do is break those changes
       apart and apply only the ones you want. This is where splitpatch comes into play, breaking
       up the patch by source file:

           splitpatch changes.patch

       Or to split the patch file into individual hunks which can later be applied using the
       patch(1) command:

           splitpatch --hunks changes.patch

ENVIRONMENT

       None.

FILES

       The --hunk option writes sequentially numbered files in the current directory named for
       the source file to be patched followed by the sequence number: "*-NNN.patch".

       Otherwise, the split patch files are named by the source file being patched.

STANDARDS

       None.

AVAILABILITY

       https://github.com/benjsc/splitpatch

SEE ALSO

       dehtmldiff(1) editdiff(1) filterdiff(1) fixcvsdiff(1) flipdiff(1) grepdiff(1) interdiff(1)
       lsdiff(1) patch(1) recountdiff(1) rediff(1) splitdiff(1) unwrapdiff(1) wiggle(1)

AUTHORS

       Program was written by Peter Hutterer <peter@cs.unisa.edu.au>.

       This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>.  Released under license
       GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about the
       license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.