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Re: Failed binary detection.

From
Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Date
Dec 21, 2007, 23:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20071221230045.GA9442@wo.int.altlinux.org>
In-Reply-To
<20071221195019.GA20668@old.davidb.org>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:50:19AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
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> A coworker has a branch with some large binary files (video test streams).
> Git doesn't seem to be detecting this file is binary, and is causing things
> that try to generate diffs to fail.
> 
> Specifically, he is unable to rebase his branch, getting an error:
> 
> .dotest/patch:3241:LD   := ld
> fatal: corrupt patch at line 84682
> Patch failed at 0001.
> 
> Line 84682 is in the middle of what appear to be the binary contents of the
> large media file, with pluses inserted after newline.
> 
> Any advice on where to look or possibly how to fix this?

See discussion of this issue in git archives, e.g. http://marc.info/?t=119652720900002

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