Jakub Narebski  writes:
> While email can be used to exchange patches (git-format-patch to

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> generate patches, git-send-mail to send patches if you don't want to

> use ordinary email client, git-am to apply patches) it cannot be used

> to exchange all information (one cannot send for example tags, or merge

> commits).

In bzr, the "bundle" appears like a patch, but it actually contain the

same information as the revision(s) it contains (I believe this

applies to hg and Darcs too). A bundle can be used almost like a

branch. That's a key point, since revision identity is not based on

content's hash, so applying a patch is very different from merging a

bundle.
> It is very usefull tool to have for "accidental" developer.
That's the key point, but patch review for non-accidental developpers

is also good :-).
> BTW. git can provide binary patch for binary files (e.g. adding favicon

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> for gitweb in git.git).

Bazaar's bundle use base64 encoding for binaries. I don't think that's

efficient binary diff (xdelta-like) though. Aaron has been fighting

quite a lot with MUA and MTA mixing up the patches (line ending in

particular) ...
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Matthieu

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