Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: fix ending newline for template files

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> By default, we should run clean-up after the editor we spawned gives
>> us the edited result.  Not adding one more LF after the template
>> when it already ends with LF would not hurt, but an extra blank
>> after the template material does not hurt, either, so I am honestly
>> indifferent.
>
> I had a similar reaction. The one salient bit I picked up was that
> Patryk finds it aesthetically offensive[1] when the template ends with
> a comment line, and that comment line does not flow directly into the
> comment lines provided by --status. That is:
>
>     Template line 1
>     # Template line 2
>
>     # Please enter the commit message...
>     # with '#' will be ignored...
>
> [1]: Quoting from the commit message of patch 1/2: "...which is very
> annoying when template ends with line starting with '#'"

As I said in the message you are responding to, I do not think it
would hurt if we stopped adding an LF after a template that already
ends with LF.  I think I am OK with a patch that does so without
doing anything else, like changing when clean-up happens, etc.