Re: binary patch compatibility

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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