From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
coywolf@gmail.com, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Document from line in patch format
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:55:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aec7e5c30510032155y3a66d637k47e728512e4fe762@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051003203826.514ea047.pj@sgi.com>
On 10/4/05, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> Magnus wrote:
> > Huh, I thought that the first line in a unified patch started with
> > "---",
>
> Yes, it does. But then the next character is a space, and there
> is at least one more space-separated field on the line.
Nitpicking, but with "diff -L" only one space exists, and that is
between "---" and the label. So it is possible to create patches
without time stamp information.
> > Relying on "diff -" or "Index: " seems wrong.
>
> I don't think anyone is relying on those patterns.
Good. Thanks.
/ magnus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-02 16:32 Paul Jackson
2005-10-02 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-02 19:51 ` Paul Jackson
2005-10-04 3:24 ` Magnus Damm
2005-10-04 3:38 ` Paul Jackson
2005-10-04 4:55 ` Magnus Damm [this message]
2005-10-04 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
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