Re: [PATCH] Make git-mailinfo strip whitespace from the start of the mail file.

"Simon Sasburg" [off-list ref] writes:

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Just to help me understand why this change is needed...

Are you using mailinfo directly without splitting with mailsplit
first?

Well, when using gmail's web interface, when reading a mail, there is
this option to show the raw mail text (headers+body) with the 'show
original' option.

If you do 'save as..' in your browser to save what you get with that,
and try to do git-am on that file, it fails because it starts with
some whitespace.

With this patch git-am works on these files.

So, i'm not using mailsplit or any other mail tools at all, just my
browser and git.

Ah, I meant "git-mailsplit", which is the command internally run
by "git-am" to preprocess the file and to split it into
individual mail pieces to be fed to "git-mailinfo".

That may suggest the change is better done in git-mailsplit not
git-mailinfo.

Or perhaps both.