Paul Smith

@madscientist on GitHub. Posts as paul@mad-scientist.net.

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2013

first message, Mar 11, 2013

Jun 12, 2025

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Patch series

Of 2 patch series (re-rolls counted once), 1 landed on master and 1 did not.

mergedgit-new-workdir: Don't fail if the target directory is emptyv4, Nov 26, 2014, e32afab7b0
not mergedgit-new-workdir: Add -f to force new-workdir in existing directory.Nov 13, 2014

A series is merged when one of its patches matches a commit on master by the same author, by subject. Versions are linked when they share a patch subject. Patches reworded before landing, or applied under someone else's name, count as not merged.

Recent emails

Jun 12, 2025Re: Solaris sed
Nov 11, 2024Re: [RFC PATCH v4 05/19] Makefile: use "generate-perl.sh" to massage Perl library
Sep 26, 2024Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies
Sep 25, 2024Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies
Sep 24, 2024Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies
Jun 12, 2023Re: Anyone know why git ls-remote output might be corrupted?
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Jun 2, 2023Re: Anyone know why git ls-remote output might be corrupted?
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Jun 2, 2023Re: Anyone know why git ls-remote output might be corrupted?
Jun 2, 2023Anyone know why git ls-remote output might be corrupted?
Mar 9, 2023Re: Fetching everything in another bare repo
Mar 9, 2023Re: Fetching everything in another bare repo
Mar 8, 2023Fetching everything in another bare repo
Jul 27, 2022Re: [PATCH] Use 'Everything up to date.' instead of 'Everything up-to-date'
Nov 12, 2021Re: bug report
Oct 30, 2021Re: [PATCH] Makefile: replace most hardcoded object lists with $(wildcard)
Jun 15, 2021Re: [PATCH 2/2] comments: avoid using the gender of our users
Jul 18, 2020Re: [off topic] Git hook and integration for JIRA
Jul 2, 2020Re: Is git compliant with GDPR?
Jun 3, 2020Re: Questions about Git-Gui Makefile and GNU File Name and Text Functions
Apr 29, 2020Re: Git configure with static curl is failing
Apr 26, 2020Git configure with static curl is failing
Dec 30, 2019Re: Feature request: add a metadata in the commit: the "commited in branch" information
Jun 13, 2019Re: Reducing git size by building libgit.so
Jun 12, 2019Re: Reducing git size by building libgit.so
Jan 24, 2019Re: Removing data from repository
Sep 9, 2018Re: git silently ignores include directive with single quotes
Aug 22, 2018Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.19.0-rc0
Aug 11, 2018Re: Help with "fatal: unable to read ...." error during GC?