Make apply --binary a no-op.

[git.git] / builtin-apply.c

diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 872c8005a27c0085d47680a8e638b8cf6f3d70a3..6e0864ce27619d1153575876e2a617a392906aed 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ static int prefix_length = -1;
 static int newfd = -1;
 
 static int p_value = 1;
-static int allow_binary_replacement;
 static int check_index;
 static int write_index;
 static int cached;
@@ -1228,14 +1227,12 @@ static int parse_chunk(char *buffer, unsigned long size, struct patch *patch)
                        }
                }
 
-               /* Empty patch cannot be applied if:
-                * - it is a binary patch and we do not do binary_replace, or
-                * - text patch without metadata change
+               /* Empty patch cannot be applied if it is a text patch
+                * without metadata change.  A binary patch appears
+                * empty to us here.
                 */
                if ((apply || check) &&
-                   (patch->is_binary
-                    ? !allow_binary_replacement
-                    : !metadata_changes(patch)))
+                   (!patch->is_binary && !metadata_changes(patch)))
                        die("patch with only garbage at line %d", linenr);
        }
 
@@ -1676,11 +1673,6 @@ static int apply_binary(struct buffer_desc *desc, struct patch *patch)
        unsigned char hdr[50];
        int hdrlen;
 
-       if (!allow_binary_replacement)
-               return error("cannot apply binary patch to '%s' "
-                            "without --allow-binary-replacement",
-                            name);
-
        /* For safety, we require patch index line to contain
         * full 40-byte textual SHA1 for old and new, at least for now.
         */
@@ -2497,8 +2489,7 @@ int cmd_apply(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                }
                if (!strcmp(arg, "--allow-binary-replacement") ||
                    !strcmp(arg, "--binary")) {
-                       allow_binary_replacement = 1;
-                       continue;
+                       continue; /* now no-op */
                }
                if (!strcmp(arg, "--numstat")) {
                        apply = 0;