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SubjectRe: Why not "attach" patches?
On Jan 15, 2002  14:09 -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Pine always worked fine when patches are imported with ^R.
>
> It doesn't at all. It silently removes extra white space at the end of
> lines. It's been a "feature" since about 4.30 or so.
>
> Does anyone recall exactly which version this changed in? Or, have any of
> the vendors reversed this wart?

Well, it would be a feature if it knew enough to only remove whitespace
at the end of "+" lines in context diffs. Then we wouldn't have 200kB
of useless whitespace in the kernel sources.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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