Re: patch: do not emit trailing blanks in context header

[Andreas Schwab]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

>> Do you mean that you *can* fix it for diff -u ?
>> That'd be nice.
>>
>>   $ diff -u <(printf 'a\n\nb\n') <(printf 'a\n\nc\n')|grep -l ' $'
>>   (standard input)
>>   
> Would old `patch' programs accept the output?

And `patch' is not the only program that parses patches.

Andreas.

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