From: Dmitry V. Levin Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:00:45 GMT Subject: Re: Failed binary detection. 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: > 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 -- ldv