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Patch file parse error

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
nodejs, typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by downloading the attached expo-router+6.0.14.patch file and reproducing the reported parse error with patch-package. Then inspect the patch parsing path and existing tests; done means the attached patch parses successfully without regressing current patch handling.

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