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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi+gmane@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:29:12 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802062327350.2732@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I picked up the qsort patch from Brian while reading the list
> via gmane's newsfeed and applied it without realizing that it
> was one of the articles whose addresses on all the address
> header fields _and_ all strings that look like e-mail addresses
> have been mangled by gmane.  Sign-offs by Dscho and Steffen
> Prohaska have also been munged (even though that are not part of
> headers).
> 
> It already is part of 'next', and we have the policy of not
> rewinding 'next', so the record of this mistake will
> unfortunately be with us forever.  Sorry, Brian, Dscho and
> Steffen.

Maybe you can make an exception for this time?  A single


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07  4:29 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 [this message]
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
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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