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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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.

-sandalle

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