René Scharfe <l....@web.de> writes:
> Add best-effort support for patches sent using format=flowed (RFC 3676).
> Remove leading spaces ("unstuff"), remove soft line breaks (indicated
> by space + newline), but leave the signature separator (dash dash space
> newline) alone.
>
> Warn in git am when encountering a format=flowed patch, because any
> trailing spaces would most probably be lost, as the sending MUA is
> encouraged to remove them when preparing the email.
The warning is a very good idea, but I wonder if it is loud enough
when mixed with other noise (e.g. "--whitespace=warn" for a short
series, or patch titles when applying a very long series).
Lossage of trailing spaces may even be a feature (just joking), when
the project policy makes it OK to use "am --whitespace=fix". I
usually use "am --whitespace=fix" but I used "am --whitespace=warn"
while applying this patch to preserve lines that begin with "SP SP
HT" in the sample patch.
