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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Update README to accomodate markdown format
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Update README to accomodate markdown format |
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Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:41:27 -0600 |
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On 07/20/2016 03:33 PM, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>>> + - http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
>>> \ No newline at end of file
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>> Why no ending newline?
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> Hmm, the original README did not have an explicit new line at end of
> file. I am not sure if it is really necessary though. Why do we need
> one?
Technically, ALL text files should have an ending newline. POSIX says
that a file without an ending newline is not a text file, at which point
programs like sed and grep are allowed to do rather interesting things
(such as refuse to process the file because it is binary).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Create README.md as a symlink to README, Pranith Kumar, 2016/07/20