On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote: > 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.
Does svn rely on patch for merging and can it be taught to use -l? Richard.
