Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:12:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: mike@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' Message-ID: <20020425.221245.99497735.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020426000849.C43192@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020425210035.A43192@espresso.q9media.com> <20020425.202217.82927028.imp@village.org> <20020426000849.C43192@espresso.q9media.com>
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Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
: M. Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes:
: > There's lots of software (well, OK, subversion) that depends on the
: > old, historical behavior. The historical behavior of diff has been to
: > include the "this file doesn't end with a newline" message, not what
: > FreeBSD hacked it to do.
:
: Perhaps the people working on Subversion still have time to fix that
: designo before too many people start using it. Solaris 2.5.1, for
: instance, returns "Warning: missing newline at end of file" on stderr
: for this condition.
Subversion already powers through this by forcing the user to install
gnu diff.
What does POSIX.1 say about this matter?
Warner
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