Description Jeff Brown 2002-04-17 15:42:00 EDT

Compare With... Patch does not compensate for differing end-of-line
conventions between that of the patch file and that of the file
being patched.  As a result patch files often cannot be applied without
using Ignore Whitespace.

The problem is two-fold:
1) Ignore Whitespace should not need to be checked
2) Line delimiters in the patch are copied without translation into the
   patched file. For instance, files containing CR/LFs may be
   generated on Linux without the user's knowledge because new lines have
   been inserted.  This in turn may confuse tools that expect the
   platform line delimiter conventions to be respected.

In particular, this poses a problem for the CVS Team Provider since
it assumes that all text files adhere to the platform's line delimiter
conventions.

Since Compare With Patch is a prominent interface for external contributions,
it should be especially cautious vis-a-vis possible interoperability issues.