Stephan Feder <sf@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The binary file detection is just a heuristic which can well fail. > Do not produce garbage patches in these cases. > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Feder <sf@xxxxxxxx> Thanks. I do not think this patch is _wrong_ per se, but I wonder what you would use a patch like that for. Specifically, do you apply such a patch with NUL and other binary data in it, and if so what tool do you use? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html