[PATCH 3/3] SubmittingPatches: remove pine-specific hints from MUA hints

From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Dave Huseby" <dwh@linuxprogrammer.org>,
	"Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	"Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] SubmittingPatches: remove pine-specific hints from MUA hints
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 10:45:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patch-3.3-9da5bc4a0c-20210512T084137Z-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover-0.3-0000000000-20210512T084137Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Remove the whole section about configuring pine with
no-strip-whitespace-before-send.

There hasn't been a release of Pine since late 2005, in Alpine the
no-strip-whitespace-before-send switch is already the default.

This documentation was initially added in 9740d289ee7 (Update
SubmittingPatches to add MUA specific notes., 2005-08-26), at this
point it's safe to say that it's not useful to anyone anymore, let's
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 56 ---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 2aa217da9c..e616d20556 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -498,62 +498,6 @@ first patch.\n", if you really want to put in the patch e-mail,
 should come after the three-dash line that signals the end of the
 commit message.
 
-
-=== Pine
-
-(Johannes Schindelin)
-
-....
-I don't know how many people still use pine, but for those poor
-souls it may be good to mention that the quell-flowed-text is
-needed for recent versions.
-
-... the "no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, too. AFAIK it
-was introduced in 4.60.
-....
-
-(Linus Torvalds)
-
-....
-And 4.58 needs at least this.
-
-diff-tree 8326dd8350be64ac7fc805f6563a1d61ad10d32c (from e886a61f76edf5410573e92e38ce22974f9c40f1)
-Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
-Date:   Mon Aug 15 17:23:51 2005 -0700
-
-    Fix pine whitespace-corruption bug
-
-    There's no excuse for unconditionally removing whitespace from
-    the pico buffers on close.
-
-diff --git a/pico/pico.c b/pico/pico.c
---- a/pico/pico.c
-+++ b/pico/pico.c
-@@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ PICO *pm;
-	    switch(pico_all_done){	/* prepare for/handle final events */
-	      case COMP_EXIT :		/* already confirmed */
-		packheader();
-+#if 0
-		stripwhitespace();
-+#endif
-		c |= COMP_EXIT;
-		break;
-....
-
-(Daniel Barkalow)
-
-....
-> A patch to SubmittingPatches, MUA specific help section for
-> users of Pine 4.63 would be very much appreciated.
-
-Ah, it looks like a recent version changed the default behavior to do the
-right thing, and inverted the sense of the configuration option. (Either
-that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the
-"no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, unless the option you have is
-"strip-whitespace-before-send", in which case you should avoid checking
-it.
-....
-
 === Thunderbird, KMail, GMail
 
 See the MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS section of linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
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