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From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi+gmane@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:32:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207133208.GT26392@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:14:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is really sad.  gmane gives us a clean threaded interface
> (both in web and newsreader), and it never forgets. Whenever I
> need to refer somebody to an old discussion, I can give an URL
> to it and allmost all the discussion messages are there with a
> single paste and clicking around.  It has been an indispensable
> service to me ever since I started reading the git list with it.
> It is really a shame that I have to prevent picking up patch
> messages from it with the above hook.
> 
> I am wondering if other development communities had a similar
> issue already, and if so how they are dealing with it.

Gmane didn't start doing this until recently.  Maybe they can stop it on
a group-by-group basis?  Every post to git@vger is archived elsewhere
with unmangled email addresses anyway...

"We understand why you're doing this, but it hurts us greatly.  Please
stop."

-bcd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 21:10 [PATCH v2] compat: Add simplified merge sort implementation from glibc Brian Downing
     [not found] ` <20080205211044.GP26392-oU/tDdhfGLReoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-05 22:21   ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]     ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052220500.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-06  2:47       ` Brian Downing
2008-02-07  4:14 ` Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  4:29   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-07  9:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-10 10:51       ` 'next' will be rewound and rebuilt after feature releases Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  8:01   ` Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous Jari Aalto
2008-02-07  8:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07  9:05       ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-07 12:42       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 13:32   ` Brian Downing [this message]
2008-02-07 14:50     ` Aidan Van Dyk
2008-02-07 15:03       ` Brian Downing
2008-02-07 16:10       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-11 21:16         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 14:10   ` Frank Lichtenheld

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