From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
trivial@kernel.org, kjsisson@bellsouth.net,
Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@amd.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Trivial] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8D8F2D.7030704@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1204162329190.21898@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
On 04/16/2012 04:35 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> This patch simply adds a newline character at end-of-file to those
> files in Documentation/ that currently lack one.
>
> This is done for a few different reasons:
>
> A) It's rather annoying when you do "cat some_file.txt" that your
> prompt/cursor ends up at the end of the last line of output rather
> than on a new line.
>
> B) Some tools that process files line-by-line may get confused by the
> lack of a newline on the last line.
>
> C) The "\ No newline at end of file" line in diffs annoys me for some
> reason.
>
> So, let's just add the missing newline once and for all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-17 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-16 21:35 [PATCH] [Trivial] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one Jesper Juhl
2012-04-17 15:41 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2012-04-17 16:03 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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