I'm trying to apply a patch that includes binary files with git apply but only the files are added. I tried running git apply failing.patch -v and it prints something like:
Skipped patch 'file.txt'.
Checking patch file.bin...
Applied patch file.bin cleanly.
How can I find out what's the reason of the skip? As the current message is not very enlightening.
Answer
I found out the problem by running patch -p1 < failing.patch which printed:
can't find file to patch at input line 5
and reminded me that I was not in the root directory.
I can't understand why no one had asked this before and why is the verbose message not verbose.
Also, not even the official documentation mentions skipping and possible causes.