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From: "Frans Klaver" <fransklaver@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Conrad Irwin" <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Update documentation for stripspace
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:28:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.v6ez9yyi0aolir@keputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323728909-7847-1-git-send-email-conrad.irwin@gmail.com>

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:28:29 +0100, Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>  
wrote:

>> an incomplete line, i.e. "ensures the output does not end with an
>> incomplete line by adding '\n' at the end if needed".
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure that's the best way of describing it — I've gone with:
> "add a missing '\n' to the last line if necessary.".

In most editors/IDE's I know and that support this, this is called "ensure  
new-line at end of file". I find this wording clearer than the above two  
options.

Cheers,
Frans

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12  1:59 [PATCH] Update documentation for stripspace Conrad Irwin
2011-12-12  6:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 22:28   ` [PATCH v2] " Conrad Irwin
2011-12-12 23:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 23:52       ` [PATCH] " Conrad Irwin
2011-12-13  6:28     ` Frans Klaver [this message]

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