From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:55 +0100 Message-ID: <200911151437.56228.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <200911140109.34202.agruen@suse.de> <6672d0160911140045h70243c12w3c56ad925dc70d39@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher , To: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Gustavsson?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 15 14:39:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N9fJs-0004YH-62 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:39:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752955AbZKONi4 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:38:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752938AbZKONi4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:38:56 -0500 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:40681 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752904AbZKONiz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:38:55 -0500 Received: from CAS00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.234) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:39:00 +0100 Received: from thomas.localnet (217.162.250.31) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:38:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.27.37-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <6672d0160911140045h70243c12w3c56ad925dc70d39@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bj=C3=B6rn Gustavsson wrote: > Do you have any plans to support git-style binary patches? >=20 > That would be very useful in a workflow when you work in git (and hav= e some > binary files in the repository), but need to commit your finished wor= k > into another VCS (such as Clearcase). You can simply use git-apply in this case, it also works outside a git repository. --=20 Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch