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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patch] urgent e1000 fix
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:22:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13661.1119601379@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:49:05 +0300." <200506240949.05620.vda@ilport.com.ua>

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:49:05 +0300, 
Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua> wrote:
>On Friday 24 June 2005 02:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> To actually allow real fuzz or to allow real whitespace differences in the
>> patch data itself is a _much_ bigger issue than this trivial patch
>> corruption, and I'd prefer to avoid going there if at all possible.
>
>How about automatic stripping of _trailing_ whitespace on all incoming
>patches? IIRC no file type (C, sh, Makefile, you name it) depends on
>conservation of it, thus it's 100% safe.

One (admittedly rare) case - adding a text file that contains an
embedded patch, so you have a patch that includes a patch.  This is
sometimes done in Documentation files when an external file has to be
changed.  In embedded patch, empty lines are converted to a single
space, which then appears as trailing whitespace.  Not sure if that is
a big enough reason not to strip whitespace.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-24  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23  9:24 [git patch] urgent e1000 fix Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 21:04 ` David Lang
2005-06-23 21:19   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 22:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 23:10       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 23:33         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-24  6:49           ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-24  8:22             ` Keith Owens [this message]
2005-06-24  8:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-24 10:14                 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2005-06-24 16:40                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-24 15:11             ` Horst von Brand
2005-06-23 23:20     ` David Lang

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