Re: [PATCH v2] git-am: Ignore whitespace before patches

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

Jay Soffian wrote:

quoted

Perhaps, before making git-am less strict, we should modify
format-patch to include a sha1 of the diff output so that corruption
can be reliably detected by git-am.

I seem to remember a discussion about hand-munging and rebasing of
patches suggesting such verification might be a bad idea[1].  I dunno.

[1] but all a search turned up is this:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/136008/focus=136234

You meant this perhaps.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138084/focus=138100