[RFC] bzr.jrydberg.versionedfile

[Johan Rydberg]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

>> The word comes from the terminology that patch uses.  They call a line
>> without a line-ending a "incomplete line."  I thought
>> 'incomplete-line' was too long.  But you might be right, something
>> like 'no-eol' could be better.  Not that users should look in the
>> index files.
>
> I would support 'no-eol'.
>
> I haven't seen the 'incomplete line', but that specific index location
> seems to me more of a description of the whole text, not just the last line.
> I've only seen diff's 'No newline':

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/diff/diff_42.html

> vim uses 'noeol' in the status bar when it opens files without a
> terminating newline. So I'm pretty used to seeing it. 'no-eol' is
> definitely easier to read. Though maybe 'no-enl' No Ending NewLine. But
> I would go with vim's because people will probably recognize it.

Yes, EOL is a recognized term in these situations. 'no-eol' it is.
I'll put it in the TODO.

~j