Re: binary diff/patch

On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:45, Ruslan Sivak wrote:

> We've decided to take a copy of the latest project and split it off
> into it's own repository as we expect major changes to be made to
> this codebase. The codebase includes text files and image files.
> I am planning to port certain changes from the old repository to
> the new one by creating patches and applying them to the new
> repository.
> Is this possible? I can't seem to find a good way to do this. When
> I try to do a svn diff on binary files, it says that it's not
> supported.

Correct, I don't think there's a good way to express differences of
binary files... at least not with the standard unix patch format,
which is what svn diff emulates.

You could just copy the new file from the one repository over the old
file in the other repository.

But why do you want to make separate repositories here? Why not just
make a branch in your existing repository? Then you can use svn merge
the way it was intended.

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Received on Tue Oct 3 20:05:29 2006