From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi+gmane@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:29:12 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802062327350.2732@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I picked up the qsort patch from Brian while reading the list
> via gmane's newsfeed and applied it without realizing that it
> was one of the articles whose addresses on all the address
> header fields _and_ all strings that look like e-mail addresses
> have been mangled by gmane. Sign-offs by Dscho and Steffen
> Prohaska have also been munged (even though that are not part of
> headers).
>
> It already is part of 'next', and we have the policy of not
> rewinding 'next', so the record of this mistake will
> unfortunately be with us forever. Sorry, Brian, Dscho and
> Steffen.
Maybe you can make an exception for this time? A single
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 4:29 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 [this message]
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
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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