From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Making binary diffs
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 02:17:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070701061710.GR32223@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0706302314m20616a17s762704606c881278@mail.gmail.com>
Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> "git format-patch" generates binary diffs for binary files (e.g pdfs)
> in its patches,
> but "git diff -p" just tells me that a binary file is different and doesn't
> generate the actual diff.
--binary::
In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
can be applied with "git apply".
Should work with all of the "diff things" like `git diff`,
`git log`, etc. See the diff-options.txt in Documentation.
--
Shawn.
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