From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:13:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-cvsexportcommit.perl: git-apply no longer needs --binary
Message-ID: <561D7B44-9EDE-447B-A751-BE6E3A3AD9CC@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200710162320.14917.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>


On 16 Oct 2007, at 5:20:14 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> So all this series does is... making it harder to follow the history?

If you follow the history solely on patches.


> Ack for removing the --binary, the rest is just noise

I think fixing the tabs is more important than removing --binary.

It's clear the the entropy of tabulation increases over time;
the tab patch acts as a buffer to reconstruct a clean signal.

Michael Witten