'\" t .\" Title: dehtmldiff .\" Author: .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot .\" Date: 17 January 2003 .\" Manual: Man pages .\" Source: patchutils .\" Language: English .\" .TH "DEHTMLDIFF" "1" "17 January 2003" "patchutils" "Man pages" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" dehtmldiff \- get usable diff from an HTML page .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP \w'\fBdehtmldiff\fR\ 'u \fBdehtmldiff\fR [\fIfile\fR...] .HP \w'\fBdehtmldiff\fR\ 'u \fBdehtmldiff\fR {[\-\-help] | [\-\-version]} .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP \fBdehtmldiff\fR creates usable diff files from HTML pages\&. This is useful in the scenario where a patch has been posted to a mailing list viewable via a web page\&. .PP The corrected diff is sent to standard output\&. Note that you will probably need to use the \fB\-l\fR option when applying the patch, in order to ignore any whitespace differences there may be\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .PP \fB\-\-help\fR .RS 4 Display a short usage message\&. .RE .PP \fB\-\-version\fR .RS 4 Display the version number of dehtmldiff\&. .RE .SH "LIMITATIONS" .PP The way this command works is fairly primitive; it boils down to some simple text replacements, followed by an \fBunwrapdiff\fR pass\&. As a result, all of the limitations that apply to \fBunwrapdiff\fR also apply to \fBdehtmldiff\fR\&. .SH "AUTHOR" .PP \fBTim Waugh\fR <\&twaugh@redhat.com\&> .RS 4 Package maintainer .RE