Subject: Re: binary patch compatibility

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:10:11 +0100

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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