Re: [BUG] git am sometimes unable to apply git format-patch output file

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Aug 12, 2017, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20170812170136.GB21045@tor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20170812162023.GA21045@tor.lan>

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 06:20:23PM +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 07:02:59PM +0300, Soul Trace wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Using git i have found that git am command may sometimes fail to apply patch
> > file which was created by the git am command.
> > 
> > 
> > Steps to reproduce:
> 
> Excellent, thanks so much for the detailed bug report.
> This kind of information is really appreciated.
> 
> Why did I say excellent ?
> Because I am working on a patch, which -should- fix exactly this kind of issues.
> I send out a patch earlier this day, but it doesn't fix your issue, even if it should.
> I hope to have a fix soonish.

I need to correct mysef, a litte bit, this doesn't seem to be a bug, but a feature.
There are 2 things to be noticed:
- The xml file has been commited with CRLF
- git am strips the CR (because they -may- have been added by a mail program)

There are 2 different solutions:
a) Use git am --keep-cr
b) "Normalize" the xml file(s), and commit them to have LF in the repo,
    they can still have CRLF in the work tree, if needed.
    This is done by
    echo "*.xml text" >>.gitattributes
    touch *.xml
    git add *.xml .gitattributes
    git commit -m "Normalize xml files"

If you really need the xml files with CRLF, use this line instead:
    echo "*.xml eol=CRLF" >>.gitattributes

HTH /Torsten