From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:18:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v2/RFC 3/6] xutils: fix ignore-all-space on incomplete line
Message-ID: <20090823171819.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdkfx8rl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

> How about doing it like this patch instead?  This counterproposal replaces
> your 3 patches starting from [3/6].
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete lines
>
> Thell Fowler noticed that various "ignore whitespace" options to
> git diff does not work well with whitespace glitches on an incomplete
> line.

I think this should be "options to git diff don't work".

I have two unrelated questions.

(1) Why do you post patches to the list, instead of committing them yourself?
(2) How do I apply a patch like this one to try to my tree? Am I expected to edit the mail message to remove everything before the shears mark before running the git-am command?

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Nanako Shiraishi
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