From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:37:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches
Message-ID: <7vbr3ysomb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508151715520.3553@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> And 4.58 needs at least this

> 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".