--- src/usr.bin/patch/patch.1	2005/09/06 00:20:09	1.5
+++ src/usr.bin/patch/patch.1	2005/09/06 00:43:16	1.6
@@ -359,6 +359,9 @@ If
 cannot find a place to install that hunk of the patch, it will put the hunk
 out to a reject file, which normally is the name of the output file plus
 .Qq .rej .
+(Note that the rejected hunk will come out in context diff form whether the
+input patch was a context diff or a normal diff.
+If the input was a normal diff, many of the contexts will simply be null.)
 The line numbers on the hunks in the reject file may be different than
 in the patch file: they reflect the approximate location patch thinks the
 failed hunks belong in the new file rather than the old one.