dehtmldiff(1)

dehtmldiff1

Get usable diff from an html page

Usage

dehtmldiff [file ...]

dehtmldiff {[--help] | [--version]}

Overview

dehtmldiff creates usable diff files from HTML pages. This is useful in the scenario where a patch has been posted to a mailing list viewable via a web page.

The corrected diff is sent to standard output. Note that you will probably need to use the -l option when applying the patch, in order to ignore any whitespace differences there may be.

Options

--help

Display a short usage message.

--version

Display the version number of dehtmldiff.

Limitations

The way this command works is fairly primitive; it boils down to some simple text replacements, followed by an unwrapdiff pass. As a result, all of the limitations that apply to unwrapdiff also apply to dehtmldiff.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9–10
  6. 11–Arch

Author

Tim Waugh <[email protected]>

Package maintainer

From patchutils 0.4.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.