Date: 26 Apr 2002 21:07:32 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' Message-ID: <1019819253.450.389.camel@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <p05111718b8ee70b3633a@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200202091752.g19HqFP11551@green.bikeshed.org> <p05101421b88b76a6aa12@[128.113.24.47]> <20020210040158.A26957@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <p05101422b88ba26bec5e@[128.113.24.47]> <p05111715b8ee4710a108@[128.113.24.47]> <20020425210035.A43192@espresso.q9media.com> <p05111718b8ee70b3633a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:12, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > So, that's my pitch. I feel fairly strongly that there is a > real advantage in following the lead of Linux (+anyone using > gnu-diff) and NetBSD in this matter. How strongly do others > feel that we should stick to the letter of this standard, > because they feel the standard really has the right idea? > > And if you feel that way, then could you please explain to me > what the advantage is? Can you come up with any tangible > benefit of the standard which would convince a linux user to > give up this non-standard extension which they have been > using for at least five years? I know that you didn't ask for it, but I'd like to voice a strong vote of "yea" for (at least) teaching our patch to handle the "\no new line" in diffs. I don't any more (my MB cap has been raised), but I used to follow the wine port by rolling my own tarballs after patching with the incremental patches that they posted on their ftp site. These were _huge_ patch files, and almost always contained some "\no new line" lines, that our patch would not DTRT with. I don't care whether our diff produces those lines one way or the other. I use vi. It doesn't believe in files without newlines at the end. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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