Ken Tanzer <ken.tan...@gmail.com> writes: >> I am not very much surprised if such a file misbehaves, because the >> "format-patch | am" pipeline is designed to be used on patches that >> can be transferred in plain-text e-mail safely. Long lines should >> probably be OK, but mixed CRLF, CR and LF may be problematic. > > I'm not sure I understand this comment. format-patch seems to work > fine on binary files.
Yes. The problematic is when you tell it to process text files, taking into account various common text breakages may be introduced to the payload, and line-end conversion is among the operations that the user may be telling it to munge the perfectly-fine input, in an attempt to compensate. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
