Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Currently, patch-id trips over our very own diff extension for marking
> the absence of newline at EOF.
This is not *our* diff extension; it is either GNU diff extension, or
it is defined in diff/patch format standard.
diff.info states in chapter "Incomplete Lines":
When an input file ends in a non-newline character, its last line is
called an "incomplete line" because its last character is not a
newline. All other lines are called "full lines" and end in a newline
character. Incomplete lines do not match full lines unless differences
in white space are ignored (*note White Space::).
An incomplete line is normally distinguished on output from a full
line by a following line that starts with `\'. [...]
For example, suppose `F' and `G' are one-byte files that contain
just `f' and `g', respectively. Then `diff F G' outputs
1c1
< f
\ No newline at end of file
---
> g
\ No newline at end of file
(The exact message may differ in non-English locales.)
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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