Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> How is git send-email and git am supposed to handle a text file which
> lacks a newline at the very end? This is about git 2.11.0.
I think this has always worked, though.
$ cd /var/tmp/x
$ git init am-incomplete-line
$ cd am-incomplete-line/
$ echo one line >file
$ git add file
$ git commit -a -m initial
[master (root-commit) 27b4668] initial
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 file
$ echo -n an incomplete line >>file
$ git diff file
diff --git a/file b/file
index e3c0674..f2ec9f0 100644
--- a/file
+++ b/file
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
one line
+an incomplete line
\ No newline at end of file
$ git commit -a -m 'incomplete second'
[master 57075ab] incomplete second
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
$ git format-patch -1
0001-incomplete-second.txt
$ cat 0001-incomplete-second.txt
From 57075ab402e2d3714ebc9e2e9d4efd8dbfd74d5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:35:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] incomplete second
---
file | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/file b/file
index e3c0674..f2ec9f0 100644
--- a/file
+++ b/file
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
one line
+an incomplete line
\ No newline at end of file
--
2.12.0-rc1-235-g2fb706ef99
$ git checkout HEAD^
$ git am ./0001-incomplete-second.txt
Applying: incomplete second
$ git diff master
$ exit