SubmittingPatches: explain rationale for using --notes with format-patch

diff --git a/builtin/apply.c b/builtin/apply.c
index 8714a887203acd84ad08f3e0917fc72b2c7a3138..6696ea4c3ffd4f7af04f3f56609a78a74a0a0b55 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/apply.c
+++ b/builtin/apply.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  *
  */
 #include "cache.h"
+#include "lockfile.h"
 #include "cache-tree.h"
 #include "quote.h"
 #include "blob.h"
@@ -435,7 +436,7 @@ static unsigned long linelen(const char *buffer, unsigned long size)
 
 static int is_dev_null(const char *str)
 {
-       return !memcmp("/dev/null", str, 9) && isspace(str[9]);
+       return skip_prefix(str, "/dev/null", &str) && isspace(*str);
 }
 
 #define TERM_SPACE     1