From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:10:11 GMT
Subject: Re: binary patch compatibility
Message-ID: <eib2ev$ga7$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4b73d43f0611011303m3e58b227x1a0bd60a9719f9f8@mail.gmail.com>

John Rigby wrote:

> If I commit a new binary file to a repository and then use
> git-format-patch --binary to produce a patch the resulting patch file
> is not compatible with the patch command.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is this not possible.

GNU patch doesn't understand git binary patch. git-apply does (as does
git-am). There is no universal binary diff format.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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