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Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 16, 2005, 00:37 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> And 4.58 needs at least this
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> diff-tree 8326dd8350be64ac7fc805f6563a1d61ad10d32c (from e886a61f76edf5410573e92e38ce22974f9c40f1)
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 15 17:23:51 2005 -0700
>
>     Fix pine whitespace-corruption bug
>     
>     There's no excuse for unconditionally removing whitespace from
>     the pico buffers on close.
Wow.

This is a _terrible_ one. Isn't pico code also supposed to be a standalone editor of some sort? I wonder how anybody could tolerate this kind of "dictatorship ;-)".

At least the changelog entry seems to say that 4.60 removed this "feature".

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Message 4 of 10 in “Add SubmittingPatches”
  1. Add SubmittingPatchesJunio C Hamano, Aug 13, 2005
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 15, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 16, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinAug 16, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinAug 16, 2005
  8. Ryan AndersonAug 16, 2005
  9. Submitting patches w/ Thunderbird [was: Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches]A Large Angry SCM, Aug 16, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2005

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