From 9f5ceba75e2fb9d3e562c8e3741a6edc7f7385f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonid Pliushch <leonid.pliushch@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:40:58 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] update .gitattributes

text=binary doesn't work well for some patches.
---
 .gitattributes | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 69d5dca465..33487390ed 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Default.
 *           text eol=lf
 
-# Patches.
-*.diff      text=binary
-*.patch     text=binary
-*.patch32   text=binary
-*.patch64   text=binary
-*.patch.*   text=binary
+# Treat patch files as binaries but let diff'ing them
+# as normal text.
+*.diff      binary diff
+*.patch     binary diff
+*.patch32   binary diff
+*.patch64   binary diff
+*.patch.*   binary diff
 
 # Powershell scripts.
 *.ps1       text eol=crlf