From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous. Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:10:01 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <20080205211044.GP26392@lavos.net> <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080207133208.GT26392@lavos.net> <20080207145036.GM26016@yugib.highrise.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Brian Downing , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen To: Aidan Van Dyk X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 17:12:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JN9Lv-0003ZJ-BU for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:11:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757511AbYBGQKv (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:10:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754792AbYBGQKv (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:10:51 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47720 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757288AbYBGQKu (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:10:50 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Feb 2008 16:10:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 07 Feb 2008 17:10:48 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/jFyovBznjQ6w6Mz7o56gAruLvUo+czr1WRjoh/w P41TGyk6MFMAkm X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20080207145036.GM26016@yugib.highrise.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > * Brian Downing [080207 07:32]: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:14:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > This is really sad. gmane gives us a clean threaded interface > > > (both in web and newsreader), and it never forgets. Whenever I > > > need to refer somebody to an old discussion, I can give an URL > > > to it and allmost all the discussion messages are there with a > > > single paste and clicking around. It has been an indispensable > > > service to me ever since I started reading the git list with it. > > > It is really a shame that I have to prevent picking up patch > > > messages from it with the above hook. > > > > > > I am wondering if other development communities had a similar > > > issue already, and if so how they are dealing with it. > > > > Gmane didn't start doing this until recently. Maybe they can stop it on > > a group-by-group basis? Every post to git@vger is archived elsewhere > > with unmangled email addresses anyway... > > > > "We understand why you're doing this, but it hurts us greatly. Please > > stop." > > Gmane has always done the "hide the real email" address on groups that > request it. The git group does *not* request it, but the msysgit group > *has* requested it. I just requested this setting to be changed. Will keep you posted. Thanks, Dscho