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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-04 16:51:44 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-05 15:24:32 -0700
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binary patch.
This adds "binary patch" to the diff output and teaches apply what to do with them. On the diff generation side, traditionally, we said "Binary files differ\n" without giving anything other than the preimage and postimage object name on the index line. This was good enough for applying a patch generated from your own repository (very useful while rebasing), because the postimage would be available in such a case. However, this was not useful when the recipient of such a patch via e-mail were to apply it, even if the preimage was available. This patch allows the diff to generate "binary" patch when operating under --full-index option. The binary patch follows the usual extended git diff headers, and looks like this: "GIT binary patch\n" <length byte><data>"\n" ... "\n" Each line is prefixed with a "length-byte", whose value is upper or lowercase alphabet that encodes number of bytes that the data on the line decodes to (1..52 -- 'A' means 1, 'B' means 2, ..., 'Z' means 26, 'a' means 27, ...). <data> is 1 or more groups of 5-byte sequence, each of which encodes up to 4 bytes in base85 encoding. Because 52 / 4 * 5 = 65 and we have the length byte, an output line is capped to 66 characters. The payload is the same diff-delta as we use in the packfiles. On the consumption side, git-apply now can decode and apply the binary patch when --allow-binary-replacement is given, the diff was generated with --full-index, and the receiving repository has the preimage blob, which is the same condition as it always required when accepting an "Binary files differ\n" patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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