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The diff tools can ignore the reality of the files, but it would be a foolish default. It's right because the vast majority of newcomers believe that they are
by benatkin 14y ago
The diff tools can ignore the reality of the files, but it would be a foolish default.
It's right because the vast majority of newcomers believe that they are adopting UNIX and having a newline and the end of a file is an important tradition. There are some good places to upset the status quo but this is not one of them.