Bug 358360

Description Mauro Molinari 2011-09-21 03:46:04 EDT

Build Identifier: I20110613-1736

Although the option General | Compare/Patch | Ignore white space is checked, if you compare a local file with its remote revision and the only differences are the line ending characters, the Synchronize View shows the local file as modified

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. checkout a file from CVS
2. change its line ending character (for instance, from CR to CRLF); do not do any other change and save
3. in Package/Project Explorer the file is marked as modified: this is ok
4. do a Team => Synchronize with Repository on the containing folder
5. the Synchronize View is populated: I would expect the file to be reset to "up-to-date", so that it is not shown in the Synchronize View and the ">" is removed from the Package/Project Explorer too, since there are no real differences with its latest remote revision; in fact, if I double click on it in the Synchronize View to see the differences, I do not see any one!
6. however, the file is still marked as modified; if I try to commit, CVS does not actually commit, because I think the CVS client doesn't find any real difference to commit
7. the result is that, even if I have committed, the file is still shown as modified (with outgoing changes), both in the Synchronize View and in the Package/Project Explorer; there is no way to fix this problem other than doing an "Override and Update" from the CVS repository; if you try just an "Update", the CVS says there are no differences to merge

I'm pretty sure that with older versions of Eclipse this problem didn't occur: as soon as you did a "Synchronize with repository", if the file was not really modified in its contents, its state was reverted to "up-to-date". I may be wrong, but with the latest versions of Eclipse (even 3.6.x I think, but I can't remember well) I find myself in this odd situation rather often...