Re: [bug-patch] Upcoming stable release

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 06 April 2009 20:07:17 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2009 0:16:42 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > plans to include a second tarball (xz) ?
>
> For the alphas? Probably not unless someone convinces me otherwise.

sorry, i meant in general.  i dont expect the full release process for alphas. 

> > > * The --binary option disables the heuristic for stripping CRs from
> > >   line endings in patches.  This allows to preserve CRs even in mangled
> > >   patches, or in patches generated without the --binary option on
> > > non-POSIX systems.
> >
> > so was the heuristic improved after the last thread on the topic ?
>
> There was much arguing back and forth with some misunderstandings, but no
> winning proposal.

i thought the simple algo of "if the lines in the source file being checked do 
not use CRLFs but the hunk does, strip CRLFs" hit all the common use cases.  
or did i miss something in that thread ?

> In the end, I sticked with turning off CRLF stripping
> with --binary when reading. I updated the man page to:

from a distribution pov, this just pushes the work on us (unnecessarily imo).  
we have to manually add --binary when it is needed.
-mike