This patch adds some missing newlines, trims some multiple redundant
final newlines into a single one, and trims few redundant leading
newlines.
According to POSIX, a line is a sequence of zero or more non-'<newline>'
characters plus a terminating '<newline>' character. [1] Files should
normally have at least one final newline character.
C89 [2] and later standards [3] mention a final newline:
"A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line character,
which shall not be immediately preceded by a backslash character."
Although it is not mandatory for all files to have a final newline
fixed, a more consistent and homogeneous approach brings less of commit
differences issues and a better development experience in certain text
editors and IDEs.
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_206
[2] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#2.1.1.2
[3] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.html#5.1.1.2
The $Id$ keywords were used in Subversion where they can be substituted
with filename, last revision number change, last changed date, and last
user who changed it.
In Git this functionality is different and can be done with Git attribute
ident. These need to be defined manually for each file in the
.gitattributes file and are afterwards replaced with 40-character
hexadecimal blob object name which is based only on the particular file
contents.
This patch simplifies handling of $Id$ keywords by removing them since
they are not used anymore.
I hacked this together for the old version of the new site, and it really
didn't fit in with the new aesthetic. This is an attempt to improve it to stick
out less like a sore thumb and more like a slightly itchy one instead.
and to head off the inevitable bitching about this, it
is because the Yahoo BOSS v1 API we are using is going
away on July 20 and Yahoo was not willing to give us
free access to the new v2 API. It would end up costing
us about $600/year at our current usage pattern.
The new Google REST API would cost us about $7500/year.
The Bing API is free.
