[SVN-3610] svn patch should be able to ignore whitespace changes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: libsvn_diff
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stefan Küng
• Created: 27/Mar/10 15:39
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:28
• Resolved: 02/Feb/11 21:26

Description

The svn_client_patch API should be able to apply a patch and ignore whitespace
changes.
The reason for this is that some email clients mess with whitespaces and when
they do, applying such a messed-with patch can't be applied without ignoring
such whitespaces.

See this thread:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-03/0595.shtml

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-03/0595.shtml