Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Anyway, I tried to look at the patch sources, but I had to stop. That > whole "intuit_diff_type()" function is probably designed as an initiation > rite for any patch programmers, and to make sure that you have to be > really serious about wanting to send patches before you can become part of > the "in crowd". It's "mental hazing". You should have seen it in the good old days when Larry Wall wrote it. It was at least -- at least! -- 10% worse. > In this case, the improvement would be to simply ignore indented patches > (preferably by default, but at least have the option to do so). I agree. POSIX has tied our hands to some extent, though, since it _requires_ patch to accept indented patches by default. It's too late to fix this in the current POSIX go-round, but we can fix it in the next. And in the mean time we can add an option, I suppose defaulting to not stripping indentation unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. That would be fine with me. I'll add it to my list of things to do. - 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
