From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-cvsexportcommit.perl: git-apply no longer needs --binary Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:44 -0400 Message-ID: <561D7B44-9EDE-447B-A751-BE6E3A3AD9CC@mit.edu> References: <1192522094-4988-1-git-send-email-mfwitten@mit.edu> <19B03C18-6BBD-4F67-93DC-37B422445C82@mit.edu> <200710162320.14917.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 00:14:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ihufr-0007nD-MX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:14:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965809AbXJPWNx (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765449AbXJPWNw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:52 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:35526 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761808AbXJPWNv (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:51 -0400 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l9GMDkdn027171; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [18.239.2.43] (WITTEN.MIT.EDU [18.239.2.43]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mfwitten@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l9GMDjho000837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200710162320.14917.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 16 Oct 2007, at 5:20:14 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > So all this series does is... making it harder to follow the history? If you follow the history solely on patches. > Ack for removing the --binary, the rest is just noise I think fixing the tabs is more important than removing --binary. It's clear the the entropy of tabulation increases over time; the tab patch acts as a buffer to reconstruct a clean signal. Michael Witten