Re: [PATCH 0/4] Don't warn about missing EOL for symlinks

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

"No newline at end of file" always confuses me when looking at a diff for
symlinks. "File? Huh? Didn't Git recognize my symlink?"

For interactive use, I do understand. But how do you deal with the
(improbable) case of a user actually adding a newline at the end of
the target of the symlink, and then using format-patch and am to apply
the changes somewhere else?

You probably want to make sure your patch doesn't modify format-patch.

BTW, I disagree that the message is a "warning": it's actually a piece
of information, part of the patch, but that we find annoying in this
case.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/