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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:16:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: gmirror patches
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> Patch is gzipped and can be easily gunziped after download. (and 
> uuencoded in webpage view)

Ah, yes, sorry about that - thought it would be obvious. I always
submit changes that way as I find that whitespace has a habit
of breaking otherwise.

> It is true that patch is better in plaintext diff.

How would I set about doing that without the whitespace being messed up
by email transit ? I have always found in the past that tabs end up as
spaces and then patch gets upset hwne you try to apply it.

-pete.

PS: thanks for the emai address BTW!