Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Change git-am to ignore whitespace (as defined by sh's read) at the > beginning of patches. > > Empty lines are wont to creep in at the beginning of patches, here's > an example from a raw Gmail attachment: > > 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | > 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0a | .| > 52 65 74 75 72 6e 2d 50 61 74 68 3a 20 3c 61 76 |Return-Path: <av| > > Whitespace is also likely to appear if the user copy/pastes the patch > around, e.g. via a pastebin, or any any number of other cases. This > harms nothing and makes git-am's detection more fault tolerant. Actually cut-and-paste is often a major source of whitespace breakage (including tabs silently being expanded), and I personally think a patch like this to encourage the practice is going in a wrong direction. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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