Re: binary safe?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2005, 23:00 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90511031500p3d6ed433s6efe3f5a5e60bcf8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jbpbb3l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 11/4/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>
> > I presume emailing diff-patches is out of the question, but if all I'm
> > doing is git-push and git-pull (using the shared central repository
> > model), and if I'm stupid enough to have a merge error it's OK to just
> > blow up on a binary file, will everything else work fine?
>
> It should.  I trust git well enough to track some png files in
> my day-job project.

Yes it works, and cvsimport -k will do the right thing for you.

We are tracking projects with several binary files. The only issue as you note is that trading patches with git-format-patch and git-am doesn't quite deal with it. But you can still do it across different git heads with git-read-tree -m as long as your binary file merges are truly trivial.

cheers,

martin