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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000
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@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
-<para>
-The Patch package contains the patch program.
-</para>
+<para>The Patch package contains the patch program.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
-<para>
-The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch
+<para>The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch
file usually is a list created by the diff program that contains
instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used
a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine
@@ -19,8 +16,7 @@ only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an
entirely new package of 1MB or just as a patch file of 1KB which will
update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So
if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids
-a second large download.
-</para>
+a second large download.</para>
</sect2>