[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] base-files: For sysfixtime use hwclock if RTC available

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:47:05AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> I used git send-email so there shouldn't be any whitepspace mangling 
> issues, unless patchwork is to blame.

Over at openvpn-devel, we recently discovered that some versions of
MS Exchange mangle whitespace for "mails in transit" - so even when the
user did everything right (git send-email, etc.) Exchange still converted
all tabs to 8x Space, leading to non-applying patches.

Solution: send via freemail provider, using direct SMTP+Auth (which
git send-email can do).

> That leaves receive-side error.  It seems likely given the line the 
> error is on, that patchwork is pickier than git or the vim bit you sent 
> me.  That is the 'offending' line is a shell script that happens to have 
> 8 spaces instead of tab.  Methinks this is not a relevant thing to 
> complain about in a shell script; also I wonder whether it would do the 
> same with with e.g. Python?  I suspect patchwork is applying Makefile 
> rules to all patches, which is just wrong.

The problem often is context.  If the parts before or after the actual
change get whitespace-modified, git am will not accept it (traditional 
patch will, and complain about fuzz needed).

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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