[PATCH 3 of 3 v2] hg: make --binary option for git diffs default to off (BC)

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Thu Apr 6 08:31:56 EDT 2017


On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 10:09:48 +0100, Ryan McElroy wrote:
> On 4/5/17 11:51 PM, Alexander Fomin wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Alexander Fomin <afomin at fb.com>
> > # Date 1491431909 25200
> > #      Wed Apr 05 15:38:29 2017 -0700
> > # Node ID f3814cce4dda8e8090736f642b694ce7cd3792bb
> > # Parent  900f393807023064cb484e86e3ccffa6338b55bb
> > hg: make --binary option for git diffs default to off (BC)
> 
> Awesome! This series looks good to me. We have to have a broader 
> discussion about the BC break in this last patch (it will probably break 
> a lot of --git users, but it seems "more correct" -- is it worth it?), 
> but the first two seem like pretty straightforward improvements to me. 
> I've marked them as pre-reviewed in patchwork.

I don't think this is trivial enough to change now. I vote against it.

Also, "git format-patch", which I think is equivalent to "hg export", includes
binary diff by default.


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