combinediff – creates a unified diff that expresses the sum of two diffs.

USAGE
       combinediff [-p n] [-U n] [-d PAT] [-Bbiqwz] [--interpolate |
                   --combine] diff1 diff2

       combinediff {--help | --version}

DESCRIPTION
       combinediff creates a unified diff that expresses the sum of two diffs.
       The diff files must be listed in the order that they are to be applied.
       For  best results, the diffs must have at least three lines of context.

       The diffs may be in context format. The output,  however,  will  be  in
       unified format.

OPTIONS
       -p n   When comparing filenames, ignore the first n pathname components
              from both patches. (This is similar to  the  -p  option  to  GNU
              patch(1).)

       -q     Quieter  output.  Don’t emit rationale lines at the beginning of
              each patch.

       -U n   Attempt to display n lines of context (requires at least n lines
              of  context in both input files). (This is similar to the -U op-
              tion to GNU diff(1).)

       -d pattern
              Don’t display any context on files that match the shell wildcard
              pattern. This option can be given multiple times.

              Note  that the interpretation of the shell wildcard pattern does
              not count slash characters  or  periods  as  special  (in  other
              words, no flags are given to fnmatch). This is so that ‘‘*/base-
              name’’-type patterns can be given without limiting the number of
              pathname components.

       -i     Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.

       -w     Ignore whitespace changes in patches.

       -b     Ignore changes in the amount of whitespace.

       -B     Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.

       -z     Decompress files with extensions .gz and .bz2.

       --interpolate
              Run  as  ‘‘interdiff’’.  See combinediff(1) for more information
              about how the behaviour is altered in this mode.

       --combine
              Run as ‘‘combinediff’’. This is the default.

       --help Display a short usage message.

       --version
              Display the version number of combinediff.

BUGS
       The -U option is a bit erratic: it can control the  amount  of  context
       displayed  for  files  that  are  modified in both patches, but not for
       files that only appear in one patch (which appear with the same  amount
       of context in the output as in the input).

SEE ALSO
       interdiff(1)

AUTHOR
       Tim Waugh .