Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:
Moreover, it lacks justification and explanation of why you consider
the cleanup unnecessary. History [1] indicates that its application to
-F but not -t was intentional.
[1]: bc92377 (commit: fix ending newline for template files, 2015-05-26)
Sorry, but the date of that commit seems to be too new to be
considered "history"; I do not seem to have it, either.
But I agree with you that I too failed to see why this change is
necessary or desirable in the explanation in the proposed log
message.