From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: binary patch compatibility
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:10:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eib2ev$ga7$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
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.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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2006-11-01 21:03 binary patch compatibility John Rigby
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