mxcl/homebrew — comment on commit 0307739c5d5c889f2d79eba6969a5a9cdc45da02
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By Sharpie:

@seanlynch

Git could also be th culprit---sometimes it tries to be helpful by fixing white space errors.

@adamv @jacknagel @mikemcquaid

If you use `brew pull` to merge a pull request containing patches, make sure to invoke the `--ignore-whitespace` option so that `git am` does not do any white space fixups that would break the patch.