From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: "Björn Gustavsson" <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, bug-patch@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:17:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911141117.29238.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6672d0160911140045h70243c12w3c56ad925dc70d39@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday 14 November 2009 09:45:11 am Björn Gustavsson wrote:
> Do you have any plans to support git-style binary patches?
Support for git's extended header lines for renames, copies, hashes, file
modes would be great. I'll happily take patches or eventually implement it
myself. Binary patches are not as high on my wish list, but feel free to send
code.
> That would be very useful in a workflow when you work in git (and have some
> binary files in the repository), but need to commit your finished work
> into another VCS (such as Clearcase).
Isn't there a better way to do this than with patches?
Thanks,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-14 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-14 0:09 GNU patch: new 2.6 release Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-11-14 8:45 ` Björn Gustavsson
2009-11-14 10:17 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2009-11-14 12:27 ` Björn Gustavsson
2009-11-15 13:37 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 14:02 ` Björn Gustavsson
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