From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous. Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:01:32 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: References: <20080205211044.GP26392@lavos.net> <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 09:02:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JN1ii-0008HW-Ch for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:02:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754128AbYBGICX (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 03:02:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753934AbYBGICX (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 03:02:23 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47884 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751967AbYBGICW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 03:02:22 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JN1i7-0004Dv-0a for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:19 +0000 Received: from a91-155-178-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([91.155.178.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:19 +0000 Received: from jari.aalto by a91-155-178-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a91-155-178-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2TzBwqZ3+GsIouGSwQL9GGLfZ8M= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Wed 2008-02-06 Junio C Hamano * 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 -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines