Re: one of my nntp servers won't open

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:31:04 +0100 Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote: 
>>>
>>> RP> This is with no-gnus. The server is always 'denied'
>>> RP> Git bisect blames:
>>>
>>> RP> $ git show 9e4f0f845a97649bdeff35ef0356314d079a9383
>>> RP> commit 9e4f0f845a97649bdeff35ef0356314d079a9383
>>> RP> Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>>> RP> Date:   Sat Feb 25 13:18:09 2012 +0000
>>>
>>> RP>     parse-time.el (parse-time-string): Allow extractor to return nil.
>>>
>>>
>>> RP> What info from me would help here?
>>>
>>> Locally, do "git revert 9e4f0f845a97649bdeff35ef0356314d079a9383" and
>>> see if that works (the revert could fail, you'd have to adjust the patch
>>> then).  Then you know for sure that this commit was the problem.
>>
>> I did
>>
>> git co c259392dfe4cb4c62b6ec388c384be8b55519214
>>
>> which should be the same
>
> That's not the same.  You are reverting _all_ later commits, whereas git
> revert 9e4f0f only reverts a single commit.
>

In general yes. However:

git log

commit 9e4f0f845a97649bdeff35ef0356314d079a9383
Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 25 13:18:09 2012 +0000

    parse-time.el (parse-time-string): Allow extractor to return nil.

commit c259392dfe4cb4c62b6ec388c384be8b55519214
Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@stories.(none)>
Date:   Sat Feb 25 12:29:09 2012 +0100

    * shr.el (shr-column-specs): Protect against TDs with "width: 0%".

(HEAD when I noticed the breakage was at
9e4f0f845a97649bdeff35ef0356314d079a9383)

Robert