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Bug 320569

Summary:	Untouched text higlighted as 'Difference'; dos vs. unix end-of-line and ' '
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Rostislav Svoboda <Rostislav.Svoboda>
Component:	Compare	Assignee:	Platform-Compare-Inbox <platform-compare-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Rostislav.Svoboda
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	consistency, usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Rostislav Svoboda

2010-07-21 18:51:45 EDT

Build Identifier: Helios and Galileo

A part of text is incorrectly highlighted as changed even when 'Ignore white spaces' is toggled.
It seems like the bug appears only when both conditions are fulfilled:
- there is a space character present between some non-empty characters
- the files have different end-of-line encoding

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create files x.properties, y.properties 
x.properties:
AAA=
BBB=a a

y.properties:
AAA=a a
BBB=

2. set end-of-line encoding (on the command line)
dos2unix y.properties
unix2dos x.properties

3. Switch on the "Show whitespace characters"

4. "compare each other": x.properties and y.properties

5. 'BBB=' is incorrectly highlighted as changed

Comment 1 Tomasz Zarna

2010-07-22 08:33:01 EDT

*** Bug 320566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Tomasz Zarna

2010-07-22 08:33:15 EDT

*** Bug 320567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Tomasz Zarna

2010-07-22 08:33:24 EDT

*** Bug 320568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:04:37 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2021-10-21 11:31:49 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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