RFR(XS): 7901298: jcheck should check that every file ends with exactly one newline

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2015-05-05 23:35, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
> On 05/05/2015 02:31 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2015-02-13 12:01, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> could somebody please review and sponsor the following small change
>>> which adds a test for exactly one newline at the and of a file to
>>> check:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2015/7901298/
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/CODETOOLS-7901298
>>
>> Found this mail again now, when I wondered why it was not already fixed.
>>
>> The fix looks good to me, and I wish it was already in place :-). I'm 
>> not a formal jcheck reviewer though. :(
>>
>> /Magnus
>
> Magnus,
>
> Please see the follow-up discussion on hg-tools-dev.
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hg-tools-dev/2015-April/thread.html 
>

Quoting that discussion:
> Do all of the changesets (-r 0:tip) in all existing forests where 
> jcheck is enabled pass with this change?

Is it really the case that there can be no changes to jcheck which do 
not  make all existing changesets in all existing forests pass? How on 
earth are we then ever going to be able to raise the bar for quality?

/Magnus