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diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml index c59f6b836..729a52acb 100644 --- a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml @@ -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> |