David Bremner writes ("Bug#912426: git-debrebase: mangled conversion from
base64"):
> A workaround seems to be round trip the patches via gbp-pq; this
> switched the encoding to 8bit from base64.
I tried this and it does just the same thing as git-debrebase does, as
I would have predicted.
That is, gbp pq import generates a commit message containing binary
gibberish. gbp pq export then writes the binary gibberish to the
patch file. After that the patch seems to forever more contain the
binary gibberish, no matter what I do. I guess one could delete it
with a text editor or something.
Anyway, I have reassigned this bug to gbp pq, since I think it is an
error handling bug there. I do think it was bad input :-).
Regards,
Ian.
