WTF?

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@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.