From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: bug-patch@gnu.org,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, "Magnus Damm" <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD" <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [bug-patch] Re: [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:26:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009050026.08235.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100904220152.GB20444@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sunday 05 September 2010 00:01:52 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:46:11PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 September 2010 23:45:27 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > It also makes them incompatible with GNU patch, whether or not GNU patch
> > > understands the GIT headers.
> >
> > Aha? Then why do you think GNU patch tries to understand the GIt patch
> > headers? So that it can be incompatible with GIT?
>
> Read what you said last time around. "In this case, the patch itself is
> broken."
I was corrected on that by Jonathan Nieder's mail which describes a detail of
the GIT patch format that I didn't know about. So it's a bug in the way GNU
patch handles the git patch format and not an error in the patch. Not nice
and probably not easy to fix, but not fundamentally unfixable.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-04 22:32 UTC|newest]
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2010-09-03 18:23 ` [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-03 18:43 ` [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c) Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-03 19:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-03 19:33 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-03 19:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-04 0:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-04 21:33 ` [bug-patch] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-04 21:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-04 21:46 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-04 22:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-04 22:26 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2010-09-03 19:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-03 22:58 ` [bug-patch] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-03 23:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-04 21:57 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-04 3:21 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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