[PATCH 1/2] Add framework for tunables

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<sid@reserved-bit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 06:07:45PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Siddhesh Poyarekar <sid@reserved-bit.com> writes:
>>
>> > No, that is deliberate, to avoid adding a newline to the end of the
>> > file.
>>
>> Why do you want no newline at the end of a source file?
>
> Doesn't git throw an error when there is a newline at the end of a
> file?  I distinctly remember git do that.

You have it backward: git (and many other tools) think there *should*
be a newline at the end of every text file.  (That is, \n is a line
*terminator*, not a line *separator.*)

zw