[OH-Dev] [issue563] Pasting diff -u output comes up with no match unless space is ADDED to blank lines

[rgautier]

New submission from rgautier <rgautier at gmail.com>:

When doing the training sessions, I could not get the website to accept the diff 
-u of the 'individual file' example unless I manually added whitespace to the 
blank lines in the diff - u output.  Confirmed this with user 'jesstess' on IRC 
channel.  After adding single 'space' character on all blank lines of my diff -u 
output, it was accepted.

Using putty to cut/paste the diff -u from my session to the form (while using 
Chrome on Windows).

I think the blank space isnt supposed to be there - but it may be a conversion 
issue between cr/lf and lf on different platforms, or putty not cutting trailing 
space from otherwise blank lines.

Tried piping diff -u output to file and opening file in vi, but blank space not 
obviously there.

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messages: 2369
nosy: paulproteus, rgautier
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Pasting diff -u output comes up with no match unless space is ADDED to blank lines

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