[webkit-dev] unwritten rules of webkit style

[Darin Adler]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote:

> On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Peter Kasting wrote:
>> Misc
>> Files who should end with newlines.
>>
>> s/who//.  In fact it might be clearer to say "Files should end with  
>> a trailing newline".
>
> I always follow this rule, but I don't remember why it came to  
> exist.  Is this convention needed for source control or something?

It’s not needed for anything. Tools like diff produce slightly  
unpleasant output for files that don’t end in newlines, so we include  
them.

     -- Darin

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