On 11/26/2009 12:20 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
sed -i 's,[ \t]*$,,' probably won't work, if there are all-blanks lines being left alone in the patch (so the rx will match the patch markers too), but something slightly more elaborate preserving a fixed number of leading blanks dependng on the patch type (context or unified) should:
Actually an empty line is considered by patch(1) the same way as a line containing only a space (or two spaces for context diffs), because there are many mailers that strip trailing whitespace.
Paolo
