From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Trivial] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4F8D8F2D.7030704@landley.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jesper Juhl Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , trivial@kernel.org, kjsisson@bellsouth.net, Ben Dooks , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Ben Dooks , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Josua Dietze , Andiry Xu , Matthew Garrett , Sarah Sharp , Andrew Morton , Mike Frysinger , Michael Hennerich , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 Acked-by: Rob Landley Rob -- GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code. Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation. Pick one.