From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:08:01 GMT Subject: Re: git-format-patch for binary files / merges [Re: Expose subprojects as special files to "git diff" machinery] Message-ID: <7vlkgpis2m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > We do already support binary patches, so those can be represented well in > a patch (but you need "git-apply" to apply them, so they are disabled by > default.. And while we have tests for them, I suspect not a lot of people > really use them widely, so who knows how complete the coverage is. For > example, will "git rebase" really work? Probably. Do I know for sure? No). I've seen it in action for at least a few times in my day-job, so it appears to work ;-) > I used "bundles" once or twice under BK (it was called "bk send" and > "bk receive + bk resolve" or something like that), and I hated them. It > wasn't BK's fault: I just found the workflow annoying. So I haven't > even tested the git bundles, but if what you were looking for was to do > a "git push/pull" by email, they are what you'd be using. I've send a bundle over e-mail exactly once; it appears to work, too.