diff --git a/diff/diff.go b/diff/diff.go
index 81aa655..cc19fe5 100644
--- a/diff/diff.go
+++ b/diff/diff.go
@@ -5,12 +5,18 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
+// ParseOptions specifies options for parsing diffs.
+type ParseOptions struct {
+	// KeepCR specifies whether to keep trailing carriage return characters (\r) in lines.
+	KeepCR bool
+}
+
 // A FileDiff represents a unified diff for a single file.
 //
 // A file unified diff has a header that resembles the following:
 //
-//   --- oldname	2009-10-11 15:12:20.000000000 -0700
-//   +++ newname	2009-10-11 15:12:30.000000000 -0700
+//	--- oldname	2009-10-11 15:12:20.000000000 -0700
+//	+++ newname	2009-10-11 15:12:30.000000000 -0700
 type FileDiff struct {
 	// the original name of the file
 	OrigName string
diff --git a/diff/parse.go b/diff/parse.go
index 48eeb96..df6c140 100644
--- a/diff/parse.go
+++ b/diff/parse.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package diff
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -17,13 +16,24 @@ import (
 // case of per-file errors. If it cannot detect when the diff of the next file
 // begins, the hunks are added to the FileDiff of the previous file.
 func ParseMultiFileDiff(diff []byte) ([]*FileDiff, error) {
-	return NewMultiFileDiffReader(bytes.NewReader(diff)).ReadAllFiles()
+	return ParseMultiFileDiffOptions(diff, ParseOptions{})
+}
+
+// ParseMultiFileDiffOptions parses a multi-file unified diff with the given options.
+func ParseMultiFileDiffOptions(diff []byte, opts ParseOptions) ([]*FileDiff, error) {
+	return NewMultiFileDiffReaderOptions(bytes.NewReader(diff), opts).ReadAllFiles()
 }
 
 // NewMultiFileDiffReader returns a new MultiFileDiffReader that reads
 // a multi-file unified diff from r.
 func NewMultiFileDiffReader(r io.Reader) *MultiFileDiffReader {
-	return &MultiFileDiffReader{reader: newLineReader(r)}
+	return NewMultiFileDiffReaderOptions(r, ParseOptions{})
+}
+
+// NewMultiFileDiffReaderOptions returns a new MultiFileDiffReader that reads
+// a multi-file unified diff from r with the given options.
+func NewMultiFileDiffReaderOptions(r io.Reader, opts ParseOptions) *MultiFileDiffReader {
+	return &MultiFileDiffReader{reader: newLineReaderOptions(r, opts)}
 }
 
 // MultiFileDiffReader reads a multi-file unified diff.
@@ -153,13 +163,24 @@ func (r *MultiFileDiffReader) ReadAllFiles() ([]*FileDiff, error) {
 
 // ParseFileDiff parses a file unified diff.
 func ParseFileDiff(diff []byte) (*FileDiff, error) {
-	return NewFileDiffReader(bytes.NewReader(diff)).Read()
+	return ParseFileDiffOptions(diff, ParseOptions{})
+}
+
+// ParseFileDiffOptions parses a file unified diff with the given options.
+func ParseFileDiffOptions(diff []byte, opts ParseOptions) (*FileDiff, error) {
+	return NewFileDiffReaderOptions(bytes.NewReader(diff), opts).Read()
 }
 
 // NewFileDiffReader returns a new FileDiffReader that reads a file
 // unified diff.
 func NewFileDiffReader(r io.Reader) *FileDiffReader {
-	return &FileDiffReader{reader: &lineReader{reader: bufio.NewReader(r)}}
+	return NewFileDiffReaderOptions(r, ParseOptions{})
+}
+
+// NewFileDiffReaderOptions returns a new FileDiffReader that reads a file
+// unified diff with the given options.
+func NewFileDiffReaderOptions(r io.Reader, opts ParseOptions) *FileDiffReader {
+	return &FileDiffReader{reader: newLineReaderOptions(r, opts)}
 }
 
 // FileDiffReader reads a unified file diff.
@@ -586,7 +607,12 @@ var (
 // only of hunks and not include a file header; if it has a file
 // header, use ParseFileDiff.
 func ParseHunks(diff []byte) ([]*Hunk, error) {
-	r := NewHunksReader(bytes.NewReader(diff))
+	return ParseHunksOptions(diff, ParseOptions{})
+}
+
+// ParseHunksOptions parses hunks from a unified diff with the given options.
+func ParseHunksOptions(diff []byte, opts ParseOptions) ([]*Hunk, error) {
+	r := NewHunksReaderOptions(bytes.NewReader(diff), opts)
 	hunks, err := r.ReadAllHunks()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -597,7 +623,13 @@ func ParseHunks(diff []byte) ([]*Hunk, error) {
 // NewHunksReader returns a new HunksReader that reads unified diff hunks
 // from r.
 func NewHunksReader(r io.Reader) *HunksReader {
-	return &HunksReader{reader: &lineReader{reader: bufio.NewReader(r)}}
+	return NewHunksReaderOptions(r, ParseOptions{})
+}
+
+// NewHunksReaderOptions returns a new HunksReader that reads unified diff hunks
+// from r with the given options.
+func NewHunksReaderOptions(r io.Reader, opts ParseOptions) *HunksReader {
+	return &HunksReader{reader: newLineReaderOptions(r, opts)}
 }
 
 // A HunksReader reads hunks from a unified diff.
diff --git a/diff/reader_util.go b/diff/reader_util.go
index 4530025..f1c17be 100644
--- a/diff/reader_util.go
+++ b/diff/reader_util.go
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ func newLineReader(r io.Reader) *lineReader {
 	return &lineReader{reader: bufio.NewReader(r)}
 }
 
+func newLineReaderOptions(r io.Reader, opts ParseOptions) *lineReader {
+	return &lineReader{
+		reader: bufio.NewReader(r),
+		keepCR: opts.KeepCR,
+	}
+}
+
 // lineReader is a wrapper around a bufio.Reader that caches the next line to
 // provide lookahead functionality for the next two lines.
 type lineReader struct {
@@ -20,13 +27,15 @@ type lineReader struct {
 
 	cachedNextLine    []byte
 	cachedNextLineErr error
+
+	keepCR bool
 }
 
 // readLine returns the next unconsumed line and advances the internal cache of
 // the lineReader.
 func (l *lineReader) readLine() ([]byte, error) {
 	if l.cachedNextLine == nil && l.cachedNextLineErr == nil {
-		l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader)
+		l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader, l.keepCR)
 	}
 
 	if l.cachedNextLineErr != nil {
@@ -35,7 +44,7 @@ func (l *lineReader) readLine() ([]byte, error) {
 
 	next := l.cachedNextLine
 
-	l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader)
+	l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader, l.keepCR)
 
 	return next, nil
 }
@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ func (l *lineReader) readLine() ([]byte, error) {
 // be used when at the end of the file.
 func (l *lineReader) nextLineStartsWith(prefix string) (bool, error) {
 	if l.cachedNextLine == nil && l.cachedNextLineErr == nil {
-		l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader)
+		l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader, l.keepCR)
 	}
 
 	return l.lineHasPrefix(l.cachedNextLine, prefix, l.cachedNextLineErr)
@@ -64,7 +73,7 @@ func (l *lineReader) nextLineStartsWith(prefix string) (bool, error) {
 // returned.
 func (l *lineReader) nextNextLineStartsWith(prefix string) (bool, error) {
 	if l.cachedNextLine == nil && l.cachedNextLineErr == nil {
-		l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader)
+		l.cachedNextLine, l.cachedNextLineErr = readLine(l.reader, l.keepCR)
 	}
 
 	next, err := l.reader.Peek(len(prefix))
@@ -93,7 +102,7 @@ func (l *lineReader) lineHasPrefix(line []byte, prefix string, readErr error) (b
 // the next line in the Reader with the trailing newline stripped. It will return an
 // io.EOF error when there is nothing left to read (at the start of the function call). It
 // will return any other errors it receives from the underlying call to ReadBytes.
-func readLine(r *bufio.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
+func readLine(r *bufio.Reader, keepCR bool) ([]byte, error) {
 	line_, err := r.ReadBytes('\n')
 	if err == io.EOF {
 		if len(line_) == 0 {
@@ -103,12 +112,18 @@ func readLine(r *bufio.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
 		// ReadBytes returned io.EOF, because it didn't find another newline, but there is
 		// still the remainder of the file to return as a line.
 		line := line_
+		if !keepCR {
+			return dropCR(line), nil
+		}
 		return line, nil
 	} else if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	line := line_[0 : len(line_)-1]
-	return dropCR(line), nil
+	if !keepCR {
+		return dropCR(line), nil
+	}
+	return line, nil
 }
 
 // dropCR drops a terminal \r from the data.
diff --git a/diff/reader_util_test.go b/diff/reader_util_test.go
index 8dd0016..760fcb7 100644
--- a/diff/reader_util_test.go
+++ b/diff/reader_util_test.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ index 0000000..3be2928`,
 			in := bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader(test.input))
 			out := []string{}
 			for {
-				l, err := readLine(in)
+				l, err := readLine(in, false)
 				if err == io.EOF {
 					break
 				}
@@ -207,3 +207,24 @@ ccc rest of line`
 
 	}
 }
+
+func TestReadLine_KeepCR(t *testing.T) {
+	input := "line1\r\nline2\r\n"
+	in := bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader(input))
+
+	l, err := readLine(in, true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if string(l) != "line1\r" {
+		t.Errorf("expected line1\\r, got %q", string(l))
+	}
+
+	l, err = readLine(in, true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if string(l) != "line2\r" {
+		t.Errorf("expected line2\\r, got %q", string(l))
+	}
+}