From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:03:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not drop data from '\0' until eol in patch output
Message-ID: <7vd5chzkop.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <44AE431C.4090509@b-i-t.de>

sf <sf@b-i-t.de> writes:

> GNU patch can apply patches with binary content which are typically
> produced with GNU diff with --text option.

Hmph.  Things must have improved since I looked at it the last
time, perhaps 6-7 years ago.  I remember that I used "diff -a
-u0" as an el-cheapo way to deliber binary contents but found
that patch sometimes could not grok such, and ended up writing a
small customized C program.