Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:17:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:17:04 -0500 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:52719 "EHLO lynx.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:16:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:16:29 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Patrick Mochel Cc: Nicolas Pitre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches? Message-ID: <20020115151629.N11251@lynx.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Patrick Mochel , Nicolas Pitre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mochel@osdl.org on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:09:27PM -0800 X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jan 15, 2002 14:09 -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Pine always worked fine when patches are imported with ^R. > > It doesn't at all. It silently removes extra white space at the end of > lines. It's been a "feature" since about 4.30 or so. > > Does anyone recall exactly which version this changed in? Or, have any of > the vendors reversed this wart? Well, it would be a feature if it knew enough to only remove whitespace at the end of "+" lines in context diffs. Then we wouldn't have 200kB of useless whitespace in the kernel sources. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/