From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:56:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Please make git-am handle \r\n-damaged patches
Message-ID: <4A776B32.4070509@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <200908031556.35634.wjl@icecavern.net>

On 08/03/2009 02:56 PM, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009 15:30:38 Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>>> In a serious case of craniorectal immersion, the Thunderbird developers
>>> have started using \r\n line endings on saved emails:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503271
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507530
>>>
>>> It would be nice if git-am could handle this case automatically.
>> Perhaps
>>
>>     $ dos2unix *.eml | git am
> 
> I didn't try it, but would "git am" with "apply.whitespace" and 
> "core.whitespace" set in some reasonable manner help? Not "automatic", but 
> may help if dos2unix isn't available for some reason.

It works, but it's extremely noisy.

	-hpa