Bug 377537

Summary:	Complains to malformdness of patch file containing several trailing empty lines
Product:	[Applications] kompare	Reporter:	Andrew Shark <ashark>
Component:	parser	Assignee:	Kompare developers <kompare-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	ashark
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.1.22083
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	error while opening original no error while opening modified file

Description Andrew Shark 2017-03-12 20:02:12 UTC

If a .patch file contains more than one empty lines at the end of file, Kompare complains that it has errors:

"The diff is malformed. Some lines could not be parsed and will not be displayed in the diff view."

I have created my patch file using rbt utility, not by myself. So I was surprised that kompare found some errors in it.
I have found out, that it is because additional trailing new line.

However, I am not familar with diff format specification. If it is really restricted, then it seems, that it is rbtool's bug.

Original file (generated by rbt) and modified one are attached.

Comment 1 Andrew Shark 2017-03-12 20:03:18 UTC

Created attachment 104527 [details]
error while opening original

Comment 2 Andrew Shark 2017-03-12 20:04:51 UTC

Created attachment 104528 [details]
no error while opening modified file

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2022-11-03 01:39:53 UTC

Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 4 Andrew Shark 2022-11-17 17:43:57 UTC

Yes, still reproducible. Kompare version is 4.1.22083