16 Nov
2007
16 Nov
'07
11:39 a.m.
On 15 Nov 2007, at 22:25, Jachin Rupe wrote:
[...] Where this cases a problem is with subversion. We are starting to see a lot of svn diffs with:
No newline at end of file
Just for the records, this is just the way that the diff format used by svn records that the last line had no newline.
Files are showing up as modified that, for all practical purposes, are not.
Well, technically the file was modified, and I assume here the problem is for the vim users, their editor adds a newline to the file.
[...] but Vim is the standard text editor here and all other text editors must conform.
If everybody must conform to “each file must have a trailing newline” why not place this in a subversion commit hook?