From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:25:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-apply understand "\ No newline at end of file" in non-english locales
Message-ID: <7vd5noeiub.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050904184625.GB23525@c165.ib.student.liu.se>

Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes:

> 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).