Re: stgit truncates binary files to zero length when applying patches

> On 16/11/05, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2005-11-16 11:11:56 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, git-apply doesn't fail for patches including
> > > binary files and simply creates an empty file. I think git-apply
> > > should be changed to fail to apply this kind of patches.
> >
> > Yes, at least if stgit is going to continue to use it like this.
> > Refusing to handle binary files is somewhat disappointing, but
> > still OK; agreeing to handle them and then silently wiping them is
> > a bit less OK.
>
> A workaround for this would be to add a config option for StGIT to
> always use the three-way merge for pushing patches. The problem with
> this is speed since git-diff-tree | git-apply is much faster (and
> pretty safe since fuzzy patching is not allowed) and most of the
> patches would apply cleanly with only this.