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TIL if we have a diff/patch file that does not apply cleanly, we cannot assume the behaviour of the `patch` tool is consistent.

After a long debug session I found out that depending on the `patch` tool version we have, it might or might not apply an unclean patch file.

It applied fine locally, so I didn't notice the issue.
Really did not occur to me that this could be a thing.

@falktx @kirtai I think the semantics of the patching behavior may have been insufficiently formalized for the program.
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