From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:09:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: declare "core.ignorecase" as internal variable
Message-ID: <20180627230957.GB15174@pug.qqx.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzhzgdoyb.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

At 12:11 -0700 27 Jun 2018, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>Hmph.  Do other people have difficulty applying this patch to their
>trees?  It is just several lines long so I could retype it myself,
>but I guess "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed"
>has destroyed formatting of the patch rather badly.

Yes, format=flowed requires lines that start with a space (along with 
'>' or 'From ') to be space-stuffed, adding a leading space. This will 
affect context lines in patches.

I was able to apply it cleanly (I think) by sending the message to: 

  sed '/@@/,$s/^  / /' | git am

That's replacing two leading spaces with one.