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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
	"open list:All patches CC here" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	famz@redhat.com, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Update README to accomodate markdown format
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:41:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <578FF007.8050303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhHMCCYjQe-18oUh44B6NzEQXsSSCLQBjmEmWqh5XFMtgPU_w@mail.gmail.com>

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On 07/20/2016 03:33 PM, Pranith Kumar wrote:

>>> +  - http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
>>> \ No newline at end of file
>>
>> Why no ending newline?
>>
> 
> Hmm, the original README did not have an explicit new line at end of
> file. I am not sure if it is really necessary though. Why do we need
> one?

Technically, ALL text files should have an ending newline.  POSIX says
that a file without an ending newline is not a text file, at which point
programs like sed and grep are allowed to do rather interesting things
(such as refuse to process the file because it is binary).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20 19:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix regression caused my moving README Pranith Kumar
2016-07-20 19:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Revert e4dfc5e8e("Move README to markdown") Pranith Kumar
2016-07-20 20:14   ` Stefan Weil
2016-07-20 19:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Create README.md as a symlink to README Pranith Kumar
2016-07-20 19:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Update README to accomodate markdown format Pranith Kumar
2016-07-20 20:10   ` Stefan Weil
2016-07-20 20:21     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-07-20 21:29   ` Eric Blake
2016-07-20 21:33     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-07-20 21:41       ` Eric Blake [this message]
2016-07-20 22:07       ` Peter Maydell
2016-07-20 22:15         ` Pranith Kumar

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