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Re: [PATCH] Make git-apply understand "\ No newline at end of file" in non-english locales

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 4, 2005, 19:25 UTC
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Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes:
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> The message "\ No newline at end of file" which sometimes is produced
> by diff(1) is locale dependent. We can't assume more than that it
> begins with "\ ".
>
> Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku@ida.liu.se>
> ---
>
> The previous patch wasn't doing the right thing. Hopefully I have
> managed to get it right this time.

I noticed that you left 12 in the previous patch, and thought it was a sane safety measure to make sure that the incomplete line marker is of reasonably length, not just any line that starts with '\ ' (i.e. "\ foobar\n", which is a tad short).

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  1. Make git-apply understand "\ No newline at end of file" in non-english localesFredrik Kuivinen, Sep 4, 2005
  2. Fredrik KuivinenSep 4, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2005
  4. Fredrik KuivinenSep 5, 2005

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