From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git-am: "Patch fragment without a header" Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:46:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <43E80D23.4070007@zytor.com> <7vwtg73ld7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43E814C2.6090104@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 07 16:48:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6V4Q-00047Z-Ts for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:48:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965134AbWBGPqc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:46:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965142AbWBGPqb (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:46:31 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:29325 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965134AbWBGPqU (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:46:20 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k17Fk6DZ022588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:46:06 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k17Fk4ai002380; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:46:05 -0800 To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <43E814C2.6090104@zytor.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.67__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Unfortunately git-mailinfo is in C, otherwise I'd have suggested using the > Perl MIME-tools, which seems to have all this stuff in it. > > It might just be easier to try to rewrite git-mailinfo in Perl... It might just be easier to make the mime checking go the hell away. I do _not_ want to see some random perl code for the stuff I use (hundreds of times) a day. I can apply 5 patches a second right now, and more importantly, I know what it does. Partly because I always edit out the stupid MIME stuff. I think it was a mistake to accept MIME patches in the first place. Linus