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Re: binary safe?

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 3, 2005, 22:49 UTC
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<7v7jbpbb3l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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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.

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