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Re: Binary files in format-patch

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 5, 2008, 23:01 UTC
Message-ID
<20080505230153.GL29038@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<d280d7f10805051555x67bd7e87o999a2c9e19663b92@mail.gmail.com>
Caio Marcelo <cmarcelo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using "git format-patch" to generate messages for a code review
> mailing list. It work fine except when we have binary files involved.
> Their contents are not relevant for us, and doesn't help much in a
> mailing list. Taking a peek at the code I've found out this:
Why then are they committed in Git and being modified?  If the
files aren't relevant, why are they tracked?
 
-- 
Shawn.
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