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context exist they all must match. By default no context is
ever ignored.
+--unidiff-zero::
+ By default, gitlink:git-apply[1] expects that the patch being
+ applied is a unified diff with at least one line of context.
+ This provides good safety measures, but breaks down when
+ applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
+ checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
++
+Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
+discouraged.
+
--apply::
If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
'apply'" above, gitlink:git-apply[1] reads and outputs the
* `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the
trailing whitespaces and applies the patch.
---inacurate-eof::
+--inaccurate-eof::
Under certain circumstances, some versions of diff do not correctly
detect a missing new-line at the end of the file. As a result, patches
created by such diff programs do not record incomplete lines