Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: meld
When using Meld to look at a diff between two directories, if one
directory's files have \r\n as a line terminator and the other's have
only \n, the whole files appear to be different whereas for most intents
and purposes they are the same. diff has the --strip-trailing-cr flag
which solves the problem, but Meld does not provide an option to enable
this functionality.
* First, it would be nice to have a "strip trailing carriage returns" option in
the Options menu
* Meld could auto-detect that the difference between two lines is only a
carriage return and, as a special case, either ignore the cr or warn the user.
ryan:~$ meld --version
meld 1.2
ryan:~$ diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Written by Paul Eggert, Mike Haertel, David Hayes,
Richard Stallman, and Len Tower.
ryan:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty
** Affects: meld (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Undesirable behaviour in the face of carriage returns
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391277
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