Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:08:49 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' Message-ID: <20020426000849.C43192@espresso.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <20020425.202217.82927028.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:22:17PM -0600 References: <p05101422b88ba26bec5e@[128.113.24.47]> <p05111715b8ee4710a108@[128.113.24.47]> <20020425210035.A43192@espresso.q9media.com> <20020425.202217.82927028.imp@village.org>
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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. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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