patch tries to skip any leading text in the patch file, apply the
diff, and then skip any trailing text. Thus you can feed a news article
or mail message directly to patch, and it should work. If the
entire diff is indented by a constant amount of white space, patch
automatically ignores the indentation.
However, certain other types of imperfect input require user intervention.
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