Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] compat/zlib: allow use of zlib-ng as backend

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2025, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqsepkyrok.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250115-eccentric-zebra-of-hail-c22ba0@lemur>

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> I'm not sure why --full-index was added there -- I don't think it's needed for
> --binary?

Correct. For the purpose of that quoted commit, giving "--binary" should be sufficient. It would avoid "Binary files differ" that is useless in the context of format-patch, and when a binary patch is given, it will automatically get the full length blob object name, without --full-index.

Thanks.

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