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

[Daniel Dickinson]

Hi,

On 10/01/16 05:10 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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.
>

I think this is a different issue. The issue here is that there is 
indeed 8 spaces instead of a tab, *however* it's in a shell script AND 
git doesn't complain, nor do regexes that detect things like spaces 
before tabs (there is no tab after the spaces, only non-whitespace 
text). In short patchwork appears to say 'for *all* files, you *must* 
use tab instead of 8 spaces', which is not reasonable, and in some cases 
is actually wrong.

Also I am pretty certain provider is not running Windows, nor is 
OpenWrt, so that is not likely to at issue.

> 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).

However, the error being reported is not 'patch does not apply', it is 
'whitespace error', which implies that it's something patchwork is 
reporting.

Perhaps the error report really should be 'patch does not apply because 
of whitespace error', but that is not what I was told, so I'm left guessing.

Regards,

Daniel
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