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+# This function downloads and normalizes a patch/diff file.
+# This is primarily useful for dynamically generated patches,
+# such as GitHub's or cgit's, where the non-significant content parts
+# often change with updating of git or cgit.
+# stripLen acts as the -p parameter when applying a patch.
+
+{ fetchurl, patchutils }:
+{ stripLen ? 0, ... }@args:
+
+fetchurl ({
+  postFetch = ''
+    tmpfile="$TMPDIR/${args.sha256}"
+    "${patchutils}/bin/lsdiff" "$out" \
+      | sort -u | sed -e 's/[*?]/\\&/g' \
+      | xargs -I{} \
+        "${patchutils}/bin/filterdiff" \
+        --include={} \
+        --strip=${toString stripLen} \
+        --clean "$out" > "$tmpfile"
+    mv "$tmpfile" "$out"
+  '';
+} // args)