Error while applying a patch in git

Question

I have a shallow clone, on which i made three commits. Here is the log:

$ git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all
* d3456fd (HEAD, maste

Answer 1

Note that one rationale for having to ignore whitespace was (June 2010):

What it does is enable the GMail -> download -> git-am workflow.
GMail (and doubtless countless other) E-Mail providers introduce whitespace at the beginning of raw E-Mail messages, while otherwise leaving them intact.

As mentioned in "git am/format-patch: control format of line endings", you can try a:

 git am --keep-cr

That wouldn't require you to ignore whitespace (warning only).

The OP maxmelbin confirms in the comments that the following works:

 git am -3 --keep-cr --committer-date-is-author-date /c/temp/git/format_since_origin.patch