Re: [PATCH] ls-files: Don't require exclude files to end with a newline.

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Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Dear diary, on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 11:27:45AM CET, I got a letter
> where Alexandre Julliard <julliard@xxxxxxxxxx> said that...
>> Without this patch, the last line of an exclude file is silently
>> ignored if it doesn't end with a newline.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> $ echo -en "a\nb" | wc -l
> 1
>
> In UNIX, a line is a string terminated by a newline, therefore the blob
> past the last newline character is not really a line at all. ;-)
>
> Perhaps a warning might be in order. Why don't you just add the trailing
> newline to the file?

Of course I can do that, but I think that if a user entered something
on the last line it's a safe bet they didn't mean for it to be
ignored; and since it's trivial to DTRT here, I don't see why we
shouldn't.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@xxxxxxxxxx
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