From 6fdc9ca742cc672332a5ee8afe52765f842df525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Hahm <oleg@hobbykeller.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:45:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] git: handle patch files as binary

---
 .gitattributes | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 3c04f4f99f..9ebeba4883 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 *.a binary
+*.patch binary
 # Default conflict marker size is 7 which causes some of the headings in
 # release-notes.txt to trigger git diff --check: 'leftover conflict marker'
 # when the heading is exactly 7 characters long.