Make apply --binary a no-op.

Historically we did not allow binary patch applied without an
explicit permission from the user, and this flag was the way to
do so.  This makes the flag a no-op by always allowing binary
patch application.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index c76cfffdc6..0a6f7b3219 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -110,15 +110,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	deletion part but not addition part.
 
 --allow-binary-replacement, --binary::
-	When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch
-	that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object
-	name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches
-	the object the patch applies to (i.e. "index" line's
-	pre-image object name is what is in the working tree),
-	and the post-image object is available in the object
-	database, use the post-image object as the patch
-	result.  This allows binary files to be patched in a
-	very limited way.
+	Historically we did not allow binary patch applied
+	without an explicit permission from the user, and this
+	flag was the way to do so.  Currently we always allow binary
+	patch application, so this is a no-op.
 
 --exclude=<path-pattern>::
 	Don't apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can
diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 872c8005a2..6e0864ce27 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ static int prefix_length = -1;
 static int newfd = -1;
 
 static int p_value = 1;
-static int allow_binary_replacement;
 static int check_index;
 static int write_index;
 static int cached;
@@ -1228,14 +1227,12 @@ static int parse_chunk(char *buffer, unsigned long size, struct patch *patch)
 			}
 		}
 
-		/* Empty patch cannot be applied if:
-		 * - it is a binary patch and we do not do binary_replace, or
-		 * - text patch without metadata change
+		/* Empty patch cannot be applied if it is a text patch
+		 * without metadata change.  A binary patch appears
+		 * empty to us here.
 		 */
 		if ((apply || check) &&
-		    (patch->is_binary
-		     ? !allow_binary_replacement
-		     : !metadata_changes(patch)))
+		    (!patch->is_binary && !metadata_changes(patch)))
 			die("patch with only garbage at line %d", linenr);
 	}
 
@@ -1676,11 +1673,6 @@ static int apply_binary(struct buffer_desc *desc, struct patch *patch)
 	unsigned char hdr[50];
 	int hdrlen;
 
-	if (!allow_binary_replacement)
-		return error("cannot apply binary patch to '%s' "
-			     "without --allow-binary-replacement",
-			     name);
-
 	/* For safety, we require patch index line to contain
 	 * full 40-byte textual SHA1 for old and new, at least for now.
 	 */
@@ -2497,8 +2489,7 @@ int cmd_apply(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		}
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "--allow-binary-replacement") ||
 		    !strcmp(arg, "--binary")) {
-			allow_binary_replacement = 1;
-			continue;
+			continue; /* now no-op */
 		}
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "--numstat")) {
 			apply = 0;
diff --git a/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh b/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh
index ff052699a2..e2b1124c78 100755
--- a/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh
+++ b/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ test_expect_failure 'apply binary diff (copy) -- should fail.' \
 	'do_reset
 	 git-apply --index C.diff'
 
-test_expect_failure 'apply binary diff without replacement -- should fail.' \
+test_expect_success 'apply binary diff without replacement.' \
 	'do_reset
 	 git-apply BF.diff'
 
-test_expect_failure 'apply binary diff without replacement (copy) -- should fail.' \
+test_expect_success 'apply binary diff without replacement (copy).' \
 	'do_reset
 	 git-apply CF.diff'