Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:29:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Cc: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de Subject: Re: small change to boot.c Message-ID: <199507230629.IAA00266@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1098.806461543@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 22, 95 06:05:43 pm
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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. ;-)
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