If the line numbers given in a unified diff do not match, the patch command
line program will perform a fuzzy patch and try to find the lines givn in the
context of the unified diff near the given line numbers in the original file
to apply the patch. This is currently not supported.
PS: This is a feature request and no defect.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
martin.m...@gmail.comon 14 Aug 2013 at 9:09