On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Change git-am to ignore whitespace (as defined by sh's read) at the > beginning of patches. > > This makes git-am work with patches downloaded from the GMail web > interface, here's an example from a raw Gmail attachment produced with > `hexdump -C': > > 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| > > Having to tell GMail users that they must manually edit their patches > before git-am will accept them (as this article does: > http://evag.evn.am/git/git-and-gmail) isn't optimal. This is a good point. Current behaviour discourages testing of patches as delivered by e-mail since the GMail user is more likely to overlook actual whitespace errors in a patch because they come to expect this usual failure. jon. -- 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