On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote: > > And local patches. Basically _no_ patch will apply anymore as HJ changed > > every single file. > > That's an exaggeration since only a few lines in each file were change. The > vast majority of outstanding patches won't be affected. > > > In an ideal world, yes. But it's not a clever idea to burn down the house > > just because the walls have some dots nobody cares about. > > I'm not saying that what he did is a good idea, and I don't think Jeff is > either. I support trying to remove it from the server. My point is that > if this CAN'T be done, reverting it won't help all the problems and the > lines should indeed be fixed.
That's not an option. That would basically tell you that you can get away with breaking the rules if you just take the blame. And I just checked and none of my 12 local patches I queued for stage1 apply anymore. And as usual there are big hunks that now are broken. And patch doesn't have an option to ignore whitespace changes. The patch HJ installed is 100% useless and so should be reverted in some way or another. Richard.
