From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cosmetical change: remove inconsistent "$file ends here"?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:38:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160925113809.7f9cc24f@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ewl6tq.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:30:41 +0300
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the original purpose of this convention is,
That's probably enough reason to remove them.
> it was
> probably invented in those ancient times when dinosaurs walked by
> streets, but I kinda like these "ends here" things :-)
>
> The only purpose I see in using them: you can be sure that there will
> not appear redundant newlines (introduced by untidy commits) in the end
> of files.
I speculate it's that when you print source code out you know that you are not missing a sheet when you take them with you. Doesn't really serve a purpose now (also, diff tools show you if you forget the newline before the end of file - also many editors do, even nano).
That said, touching it at all causes churn - not sure what the upside is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-25 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-24 20:00 Cosmetical change: remove inconsistent "$file ends here"? ng0
2016-09-25 8:30 ` Alex Kost
2016-09-25 9:21 ` ng0
2016-09-26 8:32 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-09-26 8:45 ` Andy Wingo
2016-09-25 9:32 ` John Darrington
2016-09-25 9:38 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2016-09-25 17:45 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-25 17:55 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-25 17:59 ` John Darrington
2016-09-28 8:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-06 19:18 ` ng0
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