Re: [git patch] urgent e1000 fix

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jun 23 2005 - 17:19:08 EST




On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> It's probably the whitespace thing that Linus's git-apply gadget was
> complaining about.
>
> I'm terribly surprising, though, since my patch(1) applied the diff just
> fine.

I could easily make git-apply accept empty lines as if they had a single
space on it. What I find surprising is that "patch" allows that kind of
whitespace corruption by default, and silently. Usually you have to give
it the "-l" flag to make it ignore whitespace differences..

Linus
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