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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:05:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207090500.GA2296@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsl05p46n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:21:36AM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Maybe you run a much newer Gnus, and Lars taught "C-u g" to
> unmangle them.  After all, gmane and Gnus are both his
> creations, so it _is_ possible.  But somehow I doubt it.

If that can be unmangled, what would be the purpose of mangling in the first
place ? If the mangling is any useful, it can't be unmangled. If it can, it
should just be removed.

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 21:10 [PATCH v2] compat: Add simplified merge sort implementation from glibc Brian Downing
     [not found] ` <20080205211044.GP26392-oU/tDdhfGLReoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-05 22:21   ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]     ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052220500.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-06  2:47       ` Brian Downing
2008-02-07  4:14 ` Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  4:29   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-07  9:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-10 10:51       ` 'next' will be rewound and rebuilt after feature releases Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  8:01   ` Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous Jari Aalto
2008-02-07  8:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  9:05       ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2008-02-07 12:42       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 13:32   ` Brian Downing
2008-02-07 14:50     ` Aidan Van Dyk
2008-02-07 15:03       ` Brian Downing
2008-02-07 16:10       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-11 21:16         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 14:10   ` Frank Lichtenheld

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