Re: git am and CRLF files

> Hi there.
> I have:
> 
> $ git version
> git version 1.6.5.1.1367.gcd48
> 
> $ git config --get core.autocrlf
> false
> 
> A repository with some UNIX (LF) and some Windows (CRLF) files.
> (and no: I will not change the files. My editors handle CRLF and LF correctly)
> 
> My problem:
> 
> 'git am' can't handle changes in CRLF files because the patch
> gets converted (by git mailsplit) to contain only LF.
> 
> Which is wrong IMHO.
> 
> git-am on my msysgit version looks like this (lines: 214++)
> 
> <---------->
> split_patches () {
> 	case "$patch_format" in
> 	mbox)
> 		case "$rebasing" in
> 		'')
> 			keep_cr= ;;
> 		?*)
> 			keep_cr=--keep-cr ;;
> 		esac
> 		git mailsplit -d"$prec" -o"$dotest" -b $keep_cr -- "$@" > "$dotest/last" ||
> 		clean_abort
> 		;;
> <---------->
> 
> The '--keep-cr' flags is passed to git mailsplit when git am is in 'rebasing' mode.
> By looking through git-am I found that I can pass "--rebasing" to git am to get my
> patch applied correctly.
> But why is git am behaving that way ?
> 
> Puzzled,
> 
> Stefan