From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:34:34 GMT
Subject: Re: am fails to apply patches for files with CRLF lineendings
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In-Reply-To: <7vvdg9i9mn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Commit c2ca1d7 "Allow mailsplit ... to handle mails with CRLF line-endings"
>> seems to be responsible.
>
> Yes, that commit is not only responsible but was deliberate.  For a better
> backstory, see:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124718/focus=124721
>
> You'd notice that I was one of the people who didn't want to have this
> change, so you don't need to convince _me_ that this was not a change to
> keep everybody happy, but you'd need to try a better job than I did back
> then to convince people who thought that "am" should directly work on
> "Thunderbird saved mails" that what they want was a bad idea X-<.

Having said that, I think you can tell "format-patch" to emit it as mime
attachment to work this around.  It _might_ even make sense to do so
automatically when the payload contains CRLF but that is a separate issue.