Re: The direction linux is taking

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:09:25 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
> > > address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
> > > dropped patches.
> >
> > Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
> > wonders than any magical patchbot.
>
> Unfortunately not an option. Cloning pine, though..

Set it to use vi as editor, rm `which pico` and be happy - usually patch
is mangled by pico, not pine itself.

..ooO(and if somebody starts whining "but puko is user-friendly" you don't want
their patches anyway)

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