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Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

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AGAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Date
Nov 14, 2009, 10:17 UTC
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On Saturday 14 November 2009 09:45:11 am Björn Gustavsson wrote:
> Do you have any plans to support git-style binary patches?

Support for git's extended header lines for renames, copies, hashes, file modes would be great. I'll happily take patches or eventually implement it myself. Binary patches are not as high on my wish list, but feel free to send code.

> That would be very useful in a workflow when you work in git (and have some
> binary files in the repository), but need to commit your finished work
> into another VCS (such as Clearcase).
Isn't there a better way to do this than with patches?

Thanks, Andreas

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