Why did we fork this project?
This project is a fork from the original python-patch project.
As any other project, bugs are common during the development process, the combination of issues + pull requests are able to keep the constant improvement of a project.
However, both community and author need to be aligned. When users, developers, the community, needs a fix which are important for their projects, but there is no answer from the author, or the time for response is not enough, then the most plausible way is forking and continuing a parallel development.
That's way we forked the original and accepted most of PRs waiting for review since jun/2019 (5 months from now).
Features
* Python 2 and 3 compatible
* Automatic correction of
** Linefeeds according to patched file
** Diffs broken by stripping trailing whitespace
** a/ and b/ prefixes
* Single file, which is a command line tool and a library
* No dependencies outside Python stdlib
* Patch format detection (SVN, HG, GIT)
* Nice diffstat histogram
* Linux / Windows / OS X
* Test coverage
Things that don't work out of the box:
* File renaming, creation and removal
* Directory tree operations
* Version control specific properties
* Non-unified diff formats.