Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:05, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Something is wrong with both patches; neither applies. ??It looks > > to be an issue with whitespace, like context lines are gaining an > > extra space at the start of the line. > > Hmm, the patches apply fine onto master for me. After going through your client and the GMane email gateway? Or before you pasted it into the message? > As a side note, I've never liked sending patches via mail. It just > feels like writing a text on a computer just to print it out, scan in > the sheet again, and then sending the scanned image as an attachment > via email. Isn't there a better way to contribute patches to Git, like > pushing to a mob branch as for the msysGit project? It works fine, so long as the tools in the chain leave the body of the message alone and don't try to outsmart the human who put it there. The git project in particular as rules about only applying patches off the mailing list, because then all contributions are in a permanent, public archive. Its also the form of communication most contributors prefer for code reviews. -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html