Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 06:16:29PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> I've attempted to use the upstream patch, but it involves some GIT
>> binaries which aren't supported by GNU patch. Among other hackish
>> options, temporarily upgrading to the appropriate upstream commit may
>> fix this for now.
>
> Does it work if you pass '--binary' to patch-flags?

It does not. Maybe I could use 'diff --binary' to patch the files into
existence?