Index: site/xdocs/get-involved.xml =================================================================== --- site/xdocs/get-involved.xml (revision 495027) +++ site/xdocs/get-involved.xml (working copy) @@ -145,9 +145,27 @@ the project committers to review and possibly accept your patch.

- +

+ Note that the 'diff' command only shows differences for text files, and + not binary files. So even if you've 'svn add'ed a binary file (gif, jar, + png etc.) it won't show up in the patch, and will fail to apply. The + key string to look out for in the patch is: +

+    Cannot display: file marked as a binary type.
+  
+ If you see that, you'll also need to attach the binary files that have changed + separately to the issue. You will find that running: + +
+    grep -B 2 "Cannot display" file.patch
+  
+ + will show you a list of all such files in 'file.patch'. +

+ +