From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:09:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems with binary patches (pull) and spaces in filenames (gitk)
Message-ID: <7vfyq5bhi2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051109213730.GA23052@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>

"Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk> writes:

> 1) When pulling an updated binary files, I guess it still tries to 
>    print this update summary by making and processing patches, and so
>    gives this error:
>
>        Updating from ab1c4033ba98c043e13da3446e7f244ac7f79942 to
>        c164231f6b59fd80171e95f31d762a80d884c708.
>        Fast forward
>        fatal: patch with only garbage at line 3249

Hmm.  Perhaps a suboption to git-apply --stat to tell it not to
barf is helpful?  In the meantime, could you pull with -n flag?

> 2) When there are spaces in filenames, gitk only shows the first part of
>    the name in the filelist at the buttom right.

Another minor gitk gripe I have is that it does not look at
subdirectories of refs/{heads,tags}/ so I do not get labels to
my topic branch heads.