Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 1:08 PM Thomas Braun > <thomas.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The -G <regex> option of log looks for the differences whose patch text >> contains added/removed lines that match regex. >> >> The concept of differences only makes sense for text files, therefore >> we need to ignore binary files when searching with -G <regex> as well. > > What about partial text/partial binary files? Good point. You'd use "-a" (or "--text") to tell the diff machinery to treat the contents as text, and the new logic must pay attention to that command line option.
