Am 07.05.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Eric Sunshine:
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Sébastien Guimmara
[off-list ref] wrote:
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On 05/06/2015 08:57 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Sébastien Guimmara
[off-list ref] wrote:
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-git-write-tree plumbingmanipulators
+git-write-tree plumbingmanipulators
\ No newline at end of file
Your editor is perhaps dropping the final newline in the file? This is
an undesirable change. Patch 2/3 exhibits the same problem.
As for the final newline, it was deliberately removed. I was not aware it
was necessary in text files. I'll correct this.
Historically, many Unix tools incorrectly handled files lacking that
final newline; sometimes by dropping the line altogether, sometimes
mis-processing it in some way or another. Misbehaviors still exist
today, often in BSD tools. In fact, just a few days ago, such a
problem was reported for git-filter-branch[1]. Consequently, retaining
newline is good insurance against misbehaving tools.
Files lacking the trailing new-line are not "text files" according to the POSIX definition, BTW.
-- Hannes