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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-am: Ignore whitespace before patches
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:50:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin2DM-q7acST-x_Oz7jU-hODy8se6sngGxTDi_9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281556645-23361-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Change git-am to ignore whitespace (as defined by sh's read) at the
> beginning of patches.
>
> This makes git-am work with patches downloaded from the GMail web
> interface, here's an example from a raw Gmail attachment produced with
> `hexdump -C':
>
>    20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
>    20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0a  |               .|
>    52 65 74 75 72 6e 2d 50  61 74 68 3a 20 3c 61 76  |Return-Path: <av|
>
> Having to tell GMail users that they must manually edit their patches
> before git-am will accept them (as this article does:
> http://evag.evn.am/git/git-and-gmail) isn't optimal.

This is a good point. Current behaviour discourages testing of patches
as delivered by e-mail since the GMail user is more likely to overlook
actual whitespace errors in a patch because they come to expect this
usual failure.

jon.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-11 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-15 17:23 [PATCH] git-am: Ignore whitespace before patches Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-09 15:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-10 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-10 17:03   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-11 19:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-11 22:50   ` Jon Seymour [this message]
2010-08-11 22:55     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-12 19:13   ` Jay Soffian
2010-08-12 20:04     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-12 20:24     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-12 21:34       ` Junio C Hamano

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