Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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? > GNU patch can apply patches with binary content which are typically produced with GNU diff with --text option. - : 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