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Re: [PATCH] Rework cvsexportcommit to handle binary files for all cases.

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date
Nov 14, 2006, 06:49 UTC
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tisdag 14 november 2006 01:47 skrev Junio C Hamano:
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>Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>> I sent a patch earlier, which was not applied, due to imperfections that I 
>> cannot solve fully. One issue was that patch 2.5.9 was required and hacking 
>> it to handle binary diffs with spaces would require and even worse kludge,
>
>I suspect that we should not be using patch, but instead be
>using git-apply perhaps with -C option if people want fuzz.

Does git-apply work without a git repo? We're applying patches onto a CVS repo.

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>[...]
> I know this script originally came from southern hemisphere, but
> I was talking about _western_ hemisphere.  The comment refers to
> the part of the code the attached patch fixes, which I will
> apply along with your updated patch.
Western/nothern, both apply to where I live.
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>I think scripts that work with git
> plumbing should read from -z output when they need to and are
> capable of, as we have done for git-cvsserver recently, and
> things written in Perl certainly are capable of doing so.
I'll investgate that.
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  1. Rework cvsexportcommit to handle binary files for all cases.Robin Rosenberg, Nov 12, 2006
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