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Re: encoding bug in git.el

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
May 30, 2008, 12:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20080530122826.GA4937@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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<20080525134200.GA31990@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
On 2008-05-25 15:42:00 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
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> On 2008-05-21 23:08:09 +0900, Clifford Caoile wrote:
>
> > Here is a proposed fix.
>
> I don't claim to understand any of the design issues around this,
> but your patch certainly fixes my problem (once I managed to apply
> it, which involved working around the lack of headers, non-matching
> offsets, and whitespace damage -- luckily it was just two hunks).
> So:
>
> Tested-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
>
> Thanks for taking the time.

How are things going with this fix? Junio, I expect you're waiting for a properly cleaned-up patch, possibly with acks from relevant people?

I think it would be a mistake to release 1.5.6 with this bug still in it; if not this bugfix, then a revert of the offending commit.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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Message 7 of 10 in “encoding bug in git.el”
  1. Karl HasselströmMay 20, 2008
  2. Clifford CaoileMay 21, 2008
  3. Karl HasselströmMay 21, 2008
  4. Clifford CaoileMay 21, 2008
  5. Karl HasselströmMay 23, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmMay 25, 2008
  7. Karl HasselströmMay 30, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2008
  9. Revert "git.el: Set process-environment instead of invoking env"Karl Hasselström, Jun 2, 2008
  10. David ChristensenJun 3, 2008

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