Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

* Wed 2008-02-06 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Message-Id: 7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
> 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

FYI,

Emacs Gnus + news.gmane.org gives access to raw articles with single
command. Suppose cursor is at thread start "!"

! R. [  40: Junio C Hamano         ] Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
  R.     [  19: Nicolas Pitre          ]


Pressing "C-u g" will display the unmodified article as seen by mail
transport. Running git's apply command can be automated pretty easily
from there.

Jari

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