patch: offer the user a chance to fix the patch if it fails to apply
The experience is still not great, but better than purely dropping the changes.
syntax: re
/figures/[^/]+\.png$
^html/
\.pyc$
~$
\.swp$
\.orig$
\.rej$
^tests/.*\.err$
^tests/easy_run.sh$
^build/
^dist/
^MANIFEST$
^docs/tutorials/.*\.rst$
\.ico$
tests/\.testtimes
^docs/training/graphs/
^docs/training/html/
^docs/training/index.html
^docs/training/graphviz-images/
^docs/training/img/
^docs/training/output/
^docs/training/pandocfilters/