Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-ID: References: X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.508 (Entity 5.508) X-RT-Interface: Web RT-Send-CC: Content-Length: 160 Looks fine. I'd suggest force-adding Makefile.in without fixing the white space, because when it gets rebuilt and the white space is put back, it confuses git.