From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 22 23:53:01 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA22460 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 23:53:01 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA22454 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 23:52:54 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13068; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:52:33 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA09597; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 09:09:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA00266; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:29:52 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507230629.IAA00266@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: small change to boot.c To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:29:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de In-Reply-To: <1098.806461543@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 22, 95 06:05:43 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 876 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Your patch was garbled. DON'T submit patches obtained by cut&paste > > in an xterm, please!!! It botches the tabs. > > I agree, but just FYI the patch command has a -l flag which causes it > to ignore whitespace differences. I know, and i have used it. Anyway, it stopped my mass-patch from working, and finally caused the confused log messages plus some extra work -- so i thought i should remind people that cutting from an xterm is dangerous (cutting from Emacs is okay, it retains the tabs). This is no criticism to Thomas here, it's just his submission where i've stumbled across it again, but he hasn't been the first one (and Thomas, of course, we're thankful for getting the patch!) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)