From 8f9677e40fe7e8e23d07da0b06be04ed10d3f649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mirek Kratochvil <miroslav.kratochvil@uni.lu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:15:33 +0200
Subject: improve the patch subcommand a little

closes https://github.com/exaexa/werge/issues/1
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 README.md | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4b9398..62a32bc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -279,12 +279,15 @@ Available options:
 
 #### Patching files in place
 ```
-Usage: werge patch MYFILE
+Usage: werge patch (MYFILE | (-f|--format)) [-p|--patch PATCH]
 
-  Apply a patch from `diff' to file
+  Modify a file using a patch from `diff'
 
 Available options:
-  MYFILE                   File to be modified
+  MYFILE                   File to be patched
+  -f,--format              Do not patch anything, only format the patch using
+                           conflict marks on joined tokens
+  -p,--patch PATCH         File with the patch (default: stdin)
   -h,--help                Show this help text
 ```
 
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