Fwd: git-gui / Warning: "No newline at end of file”

[Tobias Preuss <tobias.preuss@googlemail.com>]

Hello. I never got a response. Did my email pass the distribution
list? Best, Tobias


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From: Tobias Preuss <tobias.preuss@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Subject: git-gui / Warning: "No newline at end of file”
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>


Hello.
I noticed a problem when working with git-gui which might be a bug.
The issue only affects you when you are visually trying to stage
changes line by line. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Initialize a new repository.
2. Create a file with three lines of content each with the word
"Hello". Do not put a new line at the end of the file.
3. Add and commit the file.
4. Edit the same file putting words inbetween the three lines.
5. Open git-gui and try to stage the changes line by line.

The editor will append the warning "No newline at end of file” to the
end of the diff. When you are trying to stage a line an error occurs.
The problem is also illustrated in a question on Stackoverflow [1].

Please let me know if you need more information or if I should send
this problem to some other mailing list.
Thank you, Tobias

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[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13223868/how-to-stage-line-by-line-in-git-gui-although-no-newline-at-end-of-file-warnin