Re: stgit truncates binary files to zero length when applying patches

On 15/11/05, Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] wrote:

When applying patches and not fast-forwarding, stgit truncates the
binary files to zero length:

I've never tried binaries with StGIT before. When pushing a patch, if
a merge is needed (like in your case, the base of the foo patch has
changed), StGIT first tries "git-diff-tree | git-apply" for speed
reasons. If this fails, it falls back to a three-way merge.

Unfortunately, git-apply doesn't fail for patches including binary
files and simply creates an empty file. I think git-apply should be
changed to fail to apply this kind of patches.

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Catalin