Attachment 103314 Details for Bug 116113 – Updated "Working with patches" section

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[patch] Updated "Working with patches" section

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on 2008-06-03 10:17:53 EDT

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>### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
>#P org.eclipse.platform.doc.user
>Index: tasks/tasks-68c.htm
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvsroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-68c.htm,v
>retrieving revision 1.23
>diff -u -r1.23 tasks-68c.htm
>--- tasks/tasks-68c.htm	7 Jun 2007 20:41:15 -0000	1.23
>+++ tasks/tasks-68c.htm	3 Jun 2008 14:16:23 -0000
>@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@
> <ol type="a">
> <li>Diff output format - Allows the choice of several common diff 
> output formats. Unified is the format used by many patch application 
>- tools including Eclipse.</li>
>+ tools including Eclipse. 
>+ Format used in Context and Unified diffs allow to apply a patch, even though the line number mentioned for the hunk (patch terminology) is incorrect.
>+ In this case, the algorithm scans both forwards and backwards for a set of lines matching the context given for the hunk.</li>
> <li>Patch Root - Allows you to specify at what level your patch is rooted at. The choices
> are Workspace, Project and Selection. 
> Workspace allows you to include resources from multiple projects in your patch and is the default option. Workspace 
>@@ -132,10 +134,10 @@
> 		</li>
> 
> 	 	<li>
>- 	 		Adjust the Maximum fuzz factor (patch terminology).
>-			This factor determines how much the location of the patch in the
>-			target file may have changed since the patch was originally generated.
>-			The default value is two, but it's not automatically applied. 
>+ 	 		Adjust the Fuzz factor (patch terminology).
>+			This factor indicates the amount of hunk context lines to ignore. 
>+			The default value is zero, which means that all lines need to match.
>+			For the fuzz factor equal one it's the first and last line of context. 
> 			Press the Guess to calculate the fuzz factor that will allow the most hunks to be matched.
> 		</li>
>

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