From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:48:47 GMT
Subject: Re: RE : RE : trailling whitespace with git am ?
Message-ID: <81b0412b0908141348icee65d6kf4188cbd68405c0c@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 22:46, PICCA
Frédéric-Emmanuel<frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>
wrote:
>> how can I do the difference between a patch with normal CR+LF (the autor use this format)
>> and a patch without CR+LF due to the webmail ?
>
>> That is a question to your webmail provider but I think you generally
>> can't.  Use dos2unix as Alex suggested and you should be fine.
>
> git am --whitespace=fix was sufficient to apply the patch
>

Depending on your situation it can be an overkill: it'll remove _all_ trailing
white space. Not just \r (CR).