From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
bug-less@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "less -F" is broken
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:43:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzC79rRMgTdxGJV0g_ABW28OBGR=y4owp1OWMLWree0Ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1orqpxj.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:29 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FWIW they're not linked from
> http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/download.html but you can just URL
> hack and see releases http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ and change
> links like http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-530.tar.gz to
> http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-520.tar.gz
I should have just tried that. I just downloaded the ones linked to,
made a git archive of the history, and started bisecting. Which was
all pointless extra work, since it was in the last release, but
whatever.
> > I've reported it as a bug in less, but I'm not sure what the reaction
> > will be, the less releases seem to be very random.
>
> Via bug-less@gnu.org?
Heh. Another thing I didn't actually find. No, I just emailed Mark
Nudelman directly, because that's what the FAQ says to do:
"There is a list of known bugs here. If you find a bug that is not in
the list, please send email to the author. Describe the bug in as much
detail as possible, and I'll do what I can to help resolve the
problem."
and it doesn't mention any mailing list.
> Is this report available online somewhere?
It was not all that different from the email to the git list - just
giving the trivial test-case and my (limited) bisection result.
The data you dug up is much more useful.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-15 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-15 20:35 "less -F" is broken Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 21:23 ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-15 21:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-15 21:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-15 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16 8:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-16 16:50 ` Mark Nudelman
2018-08-16 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-20 15:54 ` Mark Nudelman
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