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 Usage
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 John Casey
 Jesse McConnell
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 22 June 2007
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Usage

  The Patch Plugin attempts to use the {{{http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/}GNU patch tool}} to apply patch files
  to source code.  It can be configured to apply patch files from any number of 
  directories with a number of different policies including strict patching where 
  you must declare all patches in the plugin configuration to a natural order processing
  which will apply all patching in a directory following a natural string sorted order.

  This plugin is most commonly used during the <<<process-sources>>> phase of the default build lifecycle:

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  mvn process-sources
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<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-patch-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <patches>
            <patch>mylittle.patch</patch>
          </patches>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>patch</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>apply</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
</project>
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