Re: am fails to apply patches for files with CRLF lineendings

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Björn Steinbrink [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Commit c2ca1d7 "Allow mailsplit ... to handle mails with CRLF line-endings"
seems to be responsible.

Yes, that commit is not only responsible but was deliberate.  For a better
backstory, see:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124718/focus=124721

You'd notice that I was one of the people who didn't want to have this
change, so you don't need to convince _me_ that this was not a change to
keep everybody happy, but you'd need to try a better job than I did back
then to convince people who thought that "am" should directly work on
"Thunderbird saved mails" that what they want was a bad idea X-<.

Having said that, I think you can tell "format-patch" to emit it as mime
attachment to work this around.  It _might_ even make sense to do so
automatically when the payload contains CRLF but that is a separate issue.