On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:55 PM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote: > > Pondering on why it is thought of as a warning to be treated as an > error, maybe the message implies something is missing via the negative > "No" assertion, rather than simply being informative [1]. Very likely. I imagine most users use diff to view the changes they made without knowledge of the use of diffs in git-apply. Without that background it's more likely to be interpreted as an opinionated comment as opposed to being informative. > Perhaps swapping out the "No" and instead using something like "\ > Without a newline at end of file" would better convey that it's just > information about the file's format, and in no way a real problem. Just > a thought. That's probably less likely to be read as a warning
