Re: [PATCH 0/4] Don't warn about missing EOL for symlinks

> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> "No newline at end of file" always confuses me when looking at a diff for
>> symlinks. "File? Huh? Didn't Git recognize my symlink?"
> 
> For interactive use, I do understand. But how do you deal with the
> (improbable) case of a user actually adding a newline at the end of
> the target of the symlink, and then using format-patch and am to apply
> the changes somewhere else?
> 
> You probably want to make sure your patch doesn't modify format-patch.
> 
> BTW, I disagree that the message is a "warning": it's actually a piece
> of information, part of the patch, but that we find annoying in this
> case.
>