Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 17, 2005, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504170937020.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050417170539.B13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote:

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> 
> BTW, there appears to be "errors" in the history committed thus far.
> I'm not sure where this came from though.  Some of them could be
> UTF8 vs ASCII issues, but there's a number which seem to have extra
> random crap in them ("^M)" and lots of blank lines).

Ah, yes. That is actually from the original emails from Andrew. I do not know why, but I see them there. It's his script that does something strange.

(Andrew: in case you care, the first one is

	[patch 003/198] arm: fix SIGBUS handling

which has the email looking like

	...
	From: akpm@osdl.org
	Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:30:35 -0700
	Status: 
	X-Status: 
	X-Keywords:                   
	
	^M)
	
	
	From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
	
	ARM wasn't raising a SIGBUS with a siginfo structure.  Fix
	__do_user_fault() to allow us to use it for SIGBUS conditions, and arrange
	for the sigbus path to use this.
	...

> One thing which definitely needs to be considered is - what character
> encoding are the comments to be stored as?

To git, it's just a byte stream, and you can have binary comments if you want to. I personally would prefer to move towards UTF eventually, but I really don't think it matters a whole lot as long as 99.9% of everything we'd see there is still 7-bit ascii.

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> ID: 75f86bac962b7609b0f3c21d25e10647ff8ed280
> [PATCH] intel8x0: AC'97 audio patch for Intel ESB2
>          
>         This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the intel8x0.c file for AC'97 audio
>         support.
>          
>         Signed-off-by: <A0>Jason Gaston <Jason.d.gaston@intel.com>

That <A0> is also there in Andrew's original email. It's "space with the high bit set", and I have no idea why.

		Linus