Deleting binary file

From: Kirill Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 9, 2006, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <1d592d70611090147p6f10f921s740e3cc19cb67c09@mail.gmail.com>

Why can't I delete binary file via patch?

> git-init-db

defaulting to local storage area

> cp /bin/sh .
> git-add sh
> git-commit -m 'test'

Committing initial tree efa3b1f9fdc4cdb8aab5bf869f580664a52ac04c

> git-rm sh

rm 'sh'

> rm sh
> git-commit -m 'test'
> git-format-patch HEAD^

0001-test.txt

> git-reset --hard HEAD^1
> git-applymbox 0001-test.txt

1 patch(es) to process.

Applying 'test'

error: No changes

> cat 0001-test.txt

From 9fd9a46e5404e7c389cfb48026b68d46faa47081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:19:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] test

--- sh | Bin 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sh b/sh
deleted file mode 100755
index a57a92a..0000000
Binary files a/sh and /dev/null differ