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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdiff/xemit.c (xdl_find_func): Elide trailing white space in a context header.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:49:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610231347490.3962@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7r63hq6.fsf@rho.meyering.net>



On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> This removes trailing blanks from git-generated diff headers
> the same way a similar patch did that for GNU diff:

NO!

This is _wrong_

You should only remove the space IF IT IS THE ONLY THING ON THE WHOLE 
LINE!

You must not remove white-space in general.

So the patch should check something like

	if (len == 1 && rec[0] == ' ')
		len = 0;

and not like you did it.

Otherwise the patch will simply not even _apply_.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-23 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-23 20:22 [PATCH] xdiff/xemit.c (xdl_find_func): Elide trailing white space in a context header Jim Meyering
2006-10-23 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-10-23 21:03   ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-23 21:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-23 21:15       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-23 21:06   ` Jakub Narebski

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