From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: being nice to patch(1) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:54:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20070702125450.28228edd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 02 21:55:05 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I5RzA-0003M0-IV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:55:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753449AbXGBTy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:54:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753512AbXGBTy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:54:58 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48330 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752880AbXGBTy5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:54:57 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l62Jst4E005234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:54:56 -0700 Received: from akpm.corp.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with SMTP id l62JsoSV003669 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:54:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.709 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.12__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.181 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: James's current git-scsi-misc has this commit in it: commit a16efc1cbf0a9e5ea9f99ae98fb774b60d05c35b Author: Kars de Jong Date: Sun Jun 17 14:47:08 2007 +0200 [SCSI] 53c700: Amiga 4000T NCR53c710 SCSI New driver for the Amiga 4000T built-in NCR53c710 SCSI controller, using the 53c700 SCSI core. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: James Bottomley When one pulls that diff out of git with `git-show' or whatever, it doesn't work - patch(1) has a heart attack over the "53c700": |commit f98754960a9b25057ad5f249f877b3d6fab889ce |Author: FUJITA Tomonori |Date: Mon May 14 20:25:31 2007 +0900 | | [SCSI] hptiop: convert to use the data buffer accessors | | - remove the unnecessary map_single path. | | - convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the | parameters. | | Jens Axboe did the for_each_sg cleanup. | | Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori | Acked-by: HighPoint Linux Team | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley | |commit a16efc1cbf0a9e5ea9f99ae98fb774b60d05c35b |Author: Kars de Jong |Date: Sun Jun 17 14:47:08 2007 +0200 | | [SCSI] 53c700: Amiga 4000T NCR53c710 SCSI | | New driver for the Amiga 4000T built-in NCR53c710 SCSI controller, using the -------------------------- File to patch: This I assume is because ^[ ]*c is a magic marker for contextual diffs. So... if someone is feeling really, really, really bored one day, it would be nice to teach git to somehow escape such patch-magic-patterns in the changelog when emitting plain old patches.