Re: [PATCH v2] git-am: Ignore whitespace before patches

> Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> Perhaps, before making git-am less strict, we should modify
>> format-patch to include a sha1 of the diff output so that corruption
>> can be reliably detected by git-am.
>
> I seem to remember a discussion about hand-munging and rebasing of
> patches suggesting such verification might be a bad idea[1].  I dunno.
>
> [1] but all a search turned up is this:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/136008/focus=136234