Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 30, 2005, 12:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509301421160.15604@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vek77ea2s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> >> > What I find amusing is that it was a patch rejection mail from you
> >> > *years* back (circa 2000 iirc), telling me my pine corrupted whitespace,
> >> > that made me switch MUA ;-)
> >> > 
> >> > All these years later, and it's still buggered ?
> >> 
> >> Actually, it seems better. It seems to be buggered by default, but it used 
> >> to be that you had to actually recompile pine to make it behave. Now you 
> >> can just disable "strip-whitespace-before-send" and _enable_ 
> >> "quell-flowed-text" and those together seem to do the trick. No extra 
> >> patches or recompiles necessary.
> >
> > Indeed.  I use those two options like that, too.  (-:
> 
> Anybody interested in adding entry to SubmittingPatches MUA
> Specific Help section?

Did I miss something? Straight from my local git directory:

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Pine ----

(Johannes Schindelin)

I don't know how many people still use pine, but for those poor souls it may be good to mention that the quell-flowed-text is needed for recent versions.

... the "no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, too. AFAIK it was introduced in 4.60.

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Hth, Dscho