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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [git patch] urgent e1000 fix
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> It's probably the whitespace thing that Linus's git-apply gadget was 
> complaining about.
> 
> I'm terribly surprising, though, since my patch(1) applied the diff just 
> fine.

I could easily make git-apply accept empty lines as if they had a single 
space on it. What I find surprising is that "patch" allows that kind of 
whitespace corruption by default, and silently. Usually you have to give 
it the "-l" flag to make it ignore whitespace differences..

		Linus