From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:17:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Making binary diffs
Message-ID: <20070701061710.GR32223@spearce.org>
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.