From: Kirill Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:47:54 GMT
Subject: Deleting binary file
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

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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
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