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    binary diff: further updates. · 0660626c
    Junio C Hamano authored
    
    
    This updates the user interface and generated diff data format.
    
     * "diff --binary" is used to signal that we want an e-mailable
       binary patch.  It implies --full-index and -p.
    
     * "apply --allow-binary-replacement" acquired a short synonym
       "apply --binary".
    
     * After the "GIT binary patch\n" header line there is a token
       to record which binary patch mechanism was used, so that we
       can extend it later.  Currently there are two mechanisms
       defined: "literal" and "delta".  The former records the
       deflated postimage and the latter records the deflated delta
       from the preimage to postimage.
    
       For purely implementation convenience, I added the deflated
       length after these "literal/delta" tokens (otherwise the
       decoding side needs to guess and reallocate the buffer while
       inflating).  Improvement patches are very welcomed.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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