From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Apr 26 4: 7:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-144-132-240-160.nsw.bigpond.net.au [144.132.240.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EA7937B41C for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 04:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26366 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2002 11:07:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (andrew@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Apr 2002 11:07:33 -0000 Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' From: Andrew Reilly To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Mike Barcroft , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" , freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <200202091752.g19HqFP11551@green.bikeshed.org> <20020210040158.A26957@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020425210035.A43192@espresso.q9media.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 26 Apr 2002 21:07:32 +1000 Message-Id: <1019819253.450.389.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:12, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > So, that's my pitch. I feel fairly strongly that there is a > real advantage in following the lead of Linux (+anyone using > gnu-diff) and NetBSD in this matter. How strongly do others > feel that we should stick to the letter of this standard, > because they feel the standard really has the right idea? > > And if you feel that way, then could you please explain to me > what the advantage is? Can you come up with any tangible > benefit of the standard which would convince a linux user to > give up this non-standard extension which they have been > using for at least five years? I know that you didn't ask for it, but I'd like to voice a strong vote of "yea" for (at least) teaching our patch to handle the "\no new line" in diffs. I don't any more (my MB cap has been raised), but I used to follow the wine port by rolling my own tarballs after patching with the incremental patches that they posted on their ftp site. These were _huge_ patch files, and almost always contained some "\no new line" lines, that our patch would not DTRT with. I don't care whether our diff produces those lines one way or the other. I use vi. It doesn't believe in files without newlines at the end. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message