Comment 4 for bug 665662

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 665662] [NEW] bzr send => "File is binary but should be text"

On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 23:48 +0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> johan@johansdator:~/src/ScandinavianKeyboard$ bzr send -o /tmp/markov-proof-of-concept.patch
> Using saved parent location "http://scandinavian-keyboard.googlecode.com/svn/trunk" to determine what changes to submit.
> bzr: ERROR: File is binary but should be text.
>
> Which file is binary? How did things get this way? What could I
> potentially do about it?
This is a bug in bzr-svn's implementation. We're trying to generate
svn-compatible diffs, but we don't support binary files yet. What does
svn do when asked to generate a diff for a file that contains binary
data?

Cheers,

Jelmer