After Andrew Morten raised the issue, I've made sure I _really_ enable my pre-applypatch hook. Please enable your pre-commit hook (comes with the distribution as a sample hook) to catch these trailing whitespaces before they hit your commit objects. Applying 'contrib/git-svn: add show-ignore command' * * You have some suspicious patch lines: * * In contrib/git-svn/git-svn.perl * trailing whitespace (line 268) contrib/git-svn/git-svn.perl:268: * trailing whitespace (line 276) contrib/git-svn/git-svn.perl:276: - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html