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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt6
-rw-r--r--builtin-log.c5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 87e491b59e..7548a21d35 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ want a filename like `0001-description-of-my-change.patch`, and
the first letter does not have to be a dot. Leaving it empty would
not add any suffix.
+--no-binary::
+ Don't output contents of changes in binary files, just take note
+ that they differ. Note that this disable the patch to be properly
+ applied. By default the contents of changes in those files are
+ encoded in the patch.
+
CONFIGURATION
-------------
You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 256bbac93a..80a01f8d44 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
int thread = 0;
int cover_letter = 0;
int boundary_count = 0;
+ int no_binary_diff = 0;
struct commit *origin = NULL, *head = NULL;
const char *in_reply_to = NULL;
struct patch_ids ids;
@@ -862,6 +863,8 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
fmt_patch_suffix = argv[i] + 9;
else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--cover-letter"))
cover_letter = 1;
+ else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--no-binary"))
+ no_binary_diff = 1;
else
argv[j++] = argv[i];
}
@@ -914,7 +917,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (!rev.diffopt.output_format)
rev.diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_DIFFSTAT | DIFF_FORMAT_SUMMARY | DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;
- if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev.diffopt, TEXT))
+ if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev.diffopt, TEXT) && !no_binary_diff)
DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, BINARY);
if (!output_directory && !use_stdout)