From owner-freebsd-standards Fri Apr 26 8:50:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A1D37B41F; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3QFoHp8533702; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:50:17 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1019819253.450.389.camel@gurney.reilly.home> References: <200202091752.g19HqFP11551@green.bikeshed.org> <20020210040158.A26957@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020425210035.A43192@espresso.q9media.com> <1019819253.450.389.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:50:16 -0400 To: Andrew Reilly From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:07 PM +1000 4/26/02, Andrew Reilly wrote: >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. > >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'm willing to ask for any votes of "yea". It's the votes of "nay" that I'm not asking for... :-) :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message