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Re: gitweb: buggy 'commitdiff_plain' output

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 10, 2009, 21:05 UTC
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> On Fri, 10 July 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > It turns out that that duplication is because they use gitweb as a strange 
> > patch distribution system (rather than emailing each other patches), and 
> > download the 'commitdiff_plain' version of the diff and then apply it with 
> > 'git am -s'.
> 
> First question: do they use gitweb from git.git repository, or a custom
> fork of gitweb (like git.kernel.org gitweb, which has caching, but IIRC
> does not have all new gitweb features)?
I have no idea. Afaik, it was on samba.org:
	http://git.samba.org/?p=jlayton/cifs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=acc11a88a4cb4ba16777099da00664347e0683f0

and I have no clue whether samba org uses plain git gitweb or something fancier.

		Linus
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