Re: [PATCH 2/2] attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver

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On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:40:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The built-in "binary" attribute macro expands to "-diff -text", so
> that textual diff is not produced, and the contents will not go
> through any CR/LF conversion ever.  During a merge, it should also
> choose the "binary" low-level merge driver, but it didn't.
> 
> Make it expand to "-diff -merge -text".

Yeah, that seems like the obviously correct thing to do. In practice,
most files would end up in the first few lines of ll_xdl_merge checking
buffer_is_binary anyway, so I think this would really only make a
difference when our "is it binary?" heuristic guesses wrong.

>  Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 +-
>  attr.c                          | 2 +-
>  t/t6037-merge-ours-theirs.sh    | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch itself looks good to me.

-Peff
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