Shouldn't git be able to apply diffs that it created with --ignore-whitespace?

2018-10-18 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
p://share.neosmart.net/View/Index/f4dkVF.diff (You can download them as-is by clicking the floppy icon in the top-right) With thanks, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: make NO_ICONV really mean "no iconv"

2018-06-15 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
kefile to add "-liconv" to the linker flags. config.mak.uname > automatically defines NEEDS_LIBICONV for platforms which require it. > The adding of "-liconv" is done unconditionally, despite NO_ICONV. > > Work around this problem by making NO_ICONV take precedence o

Is NO_ICONV misnamed or is it broken?

2018-06-14 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
e. it does not remove the dependency on libiconv) or is this a bug and iconv should not, in fact, be required? Many thanks, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies

(Some?) control codes not escaped when using `git add -p`

2017-10-12 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
ready used elsewhere). Anyway, I'm sure I'm not the only one to run into this. Seeking options and interested in the various viewpoints on how this should be correctly handled (or explanations for why it's already correct as-is). Cheers, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies

Suggestion: better error message when an ambiguous checkout is executed

2017-08-07 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
refer to one of the following: > * branch origin1/xxx > * branch origin2/xxx or, less ideally but much simpler, only the first line of that message? Thank you, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies

Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-08-07 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
sleading. Yes, anyone familiar with git knows that the output of `git status` is only showing you a summary of the diff of the working tree vs HEAD. My argument is that all it would take is another 8 characters appending to the "On branch " line to make it an infinitely more useful command. Thank you, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies

Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-06-15 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Samuel Lijin wrote: > > Can you elaborate on why you consider this useful specifically? Personally, primary usages of the current commit-ish info are to file bug reports that include the specific git revision of any given branch that a bug was

[suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-06-15 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
matches. Additionally, if this list is not the right place to make such a suggestion, then I would appreciate if someone could kindly point me in the correct direction and apologize for littering. Thank you kindly, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies