Re: Rebase triggers "git diff header lacks filename information" on very large patch with binary files

> Hi,
>
> I just did a rebase, and it throws an error like this:
>
> Applying: comment1
> Applying: comment2
> Applying: comment3
> Applying: comment4
> Applying: patch_with_binary_files
> fatal: git diff header lacks filename information when removing 1
> leading pathname component (line 7330213)
> Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
> Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
> Patch failed at 0005 patch_with_binary_files
> The copy of the patch that failed is found in:
>    /usr/local/git_tree/affiliate_data/.git/rebase-apply/patch
>
> When you have resolved this problem, run "git rebase --continue".
> If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git rebase --skip" instead.
> To check out the original branch and stop rebasing, run "git rebase --abort".
>
> The patch is very large, 882453899 bytes.
>
> The patch also includes many binary files.
>
> Extracting the content around and before line 7330213 and up to the
> next diff header in the patch I see this:
>
> perl -lne'print "$.\t$_" if 7330169 .. 7330213' .git/rebase-apply/patch
> 7330169 diff --git a/dir1/dir2/file.png b/dir1/dir2/file.png
> 7330170 new file mode 100644
> 7330171 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a3219cb6545f23e3f7c61f058d82fc2c1bd9aac
> 7330172 GIT binary patch
> 7330173 literal 11301
> 7330174 zcmXYX1ymeO)Ai!+PH-nk@Zb{MHE3{$;O=gVh2Rd06MPp4?hxD|K!5<jEd=*(p7;Ov
> [more lines of binary removed]
> 7330213 zznckDs-GVJg-A0uD|ONvCQWVX;j!JNnkQI9^=+zJ^SvLe1p-~c&7bmY5wu4C=(8F0
> [more lines of binary removed]
> 7330393 literal 0
> 7330394 HcmV?d00001
> 7330395
> 7330396 diff --git a/dir1/dir2/file.css b/dir1/dir2/file.css
> 7330397 new file mode 100644
> 7330398 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75c8afc558424ea185c62b5a1c61ad6c32cddc21
>
> I have munged the filenames.
>
> It looks to me like git can't apply patches over a certain size.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed here?