Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I picked up the qsort patch from Brian while reading the list
> via gmane's newsfeed and applied it without realizing that it
> was one of the articles whose addresses on all the address
> header fields _and_ all strings that look like e-mail addresses
> have been mangled by gmane. Sign-offs by Dscho and Steffen
> Prohaska have also been munged (even though that are not part of
> headers).
>
> It already is part of 'next', and we have the policy of not
> rewinding 'next', so the record of this mistake will
> unfortunately be with us forever. Sorry, Brian, Dscho and
> Steffen.
Maybe you can make an exception for this time? A single
Nicolas