Re: [PATCH] ls-files: Don't require exclude files to end with a newline.

Dear diary, on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 11:27:45AM CET, I got a letter
where Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> said that...
> Without this patch, the last line of an exclude file is silently
> ignored if it doesn't end with a newline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>

$ echo -en "a\nb" | wc -l
1

In UNIX, a line is a string terminated by a newline, therefore the blob
past the last newline character is not really a line at all. ;-)

Perhaps a warning might be in order. Why don't you just add the trailing
newline to the file?

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.
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