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3.4.8 Sending and receiving patches via email
The default x-diff MIME type associated with patch files
(i.e., files whose name ends in .patch) means that the
encoding of line endings may be changed from UNIX to DOS format
when they are sent as attachments. Attempting to apply such an
inadvertently altered patch will cause git to fail with a message
about ‘whitespace errors’.
The solution to such problems is surprisingly simple—just change
the default file extension of patches generated by git to end in
.txt, for example:
git config format.suffix '.patch.txt'
This should cause email programs to apply the correct base64 encoding to attached patches.
If you receive a patch with DOS instead of UNIX line-endings, it
can be converted back using the dos2unix utility.
Lots of useful information on email complications with patches is provided on the Wine wiki at http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine.
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