Re: [git patch] urgent e1000 fix

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 24 June 2005 02:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> To actually allow real fuzz or to allow real whitespace differences in the
> patch data itself is a _much_ bigger issue than this trivial patch
> corruption, and I'd prefer to avoid going there if at all possible.

How about automatic stripping of _trailing_ whitespace on all incoming
patches? IIRC no file type (C, sh, Makefile, you name it) depends on
conservation of it, thus it's 100% safe.
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vda

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