On Nov 25, 2009, Daniel Jacobowitz <d...@false.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:31:27PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
>> And patch doesn't have an option to ignore whitespace changes.
> Sure it does. -l (for loose, or --ignore-whitespace).
> QUILT_PATCH_OPTS for quilt.
And even without this, given that the patch under discussion was
mechanical, it ought to be possible to change all other patches just as
mechanically.
sed -i 's,[ \t]*$,,' probably won't work, if there are all-blanks lines
being left alone in the patch (so the rx will match the patch markers
too), but something slightly more elaborate preserving a fixed number of
leading blanks dependng on the patch type (context or unified) should:
context diffs: /../{s,^..,&:,;s,[ \t]*$,,;s,^\(..\):,\1,;}
unified diffs: /./ {s,^.,&:,; s,[ \t]*$,,;s,^\(.\):,\1,; }
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