Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I picked up the qsort patch from Brian while reading the list
via gmane's newsfeed and applied it without realizing that it
was one of the articles whose addresses on all the address
header fields _and_ all strings that look like e-mail addresses
have been mangled by gmane.  Sign-offs by Dscho and Steffen
Prohaska have also been munged (even though that are not part of
headers).

It already is part of 'next', and we have the policy of not
rewinding 'next', so the record of this mistake will
unfortunately be with us forever.  Sorry, Brian, Dscho and
Steffen.

Maybe you can make an exception for this time?  A single


Nicolas