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. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: 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