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Re: svn commit: rev 1752 - trunk/subversion trunk/subversion/include trunk/subversion/libsvn_diff

From: Zack Weinberg <zack_at_codesourcery.com>
Date: 2002-04-25 06:22:35 CEST

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:20:56AM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> I always wondered why we needed that \No newline at end of file crap.
> If there is no newline on the end of file, don't output a newline.
> What's wrong with that?

That would be far too easily lost or confused. For instance, if the
diff is embedded in an e-mail message (which happens all the time) or
if there's a diff of another file after that one (ditto), a newline
will get added, or the boundary between diff and what-comes-after will
be mangled.

zw

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