From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:29:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802062327350.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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