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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT swoolley.homeip.net>
  • To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] The Great E-mails: part 4 (HISTORY)
  • Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:12:38 -0700

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:50:20PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:49:49 +0400
> Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
>
> > The only interested thing here is a new line at the end.
> >
> > Every HISTORY file had two new lines, and I don't really understand
> > why.
> >
> > HISTORY is a regular file, like DETAILS, INSTALL, ChangeLog, any
> > other script or source code file. So it should be really happy with
> > _one_ new line at the EOF.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I believe the reason for this is that *every* HISTORY entry, including
> the first, should have an empty line after it.
>
> e.g.
> ----
> 2009-08-28 Eric Sandall <sandalle AT sourcemage.org>
> * DETAILS, DEPENDS: Created
>
> ----
>
> The newline we're talking about isn't the newline to make a proper
> Linux text (\r) file, but rather an empty line. This makes every
> history entry identical to avoid something like, "All HISTORY entries
> *except* the first..." So now all entries are identical.
>
> I'd prefer to keep this as-is, but if many want it I won't
> complain or fight for it.

I think I normalized them when I added the history printing on
grimoire update to ensure everything printed properly.

I went through and fixed up HISTORY years ago, and I think it stuck.

Seth

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  • Re: [SM-Discuss] The Great E-mails: part 4 (HISTORY), Seth Alan Woolley, 09/02/2009

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