diff: honor binariness specified in attributes

The code shuffling mistakenly lost binariness specified with the
attribute mecahnism and made it always guess from the data.

Noticed by Johannes, with two test cases to t4020.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 21e61af265..b8473f58fb 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,7 @@ static void setup_diff_attr_check(struct git_attr_check *check)
 static void diff_filespec_check_attr(struct diff_filespec *one)
 {
 	struct git_attr_check attr_diff_check;
+	int check_from_data = 0;
 
 	if (one->checked_attr)
 		return;
@@ -1179,6 +1180,8 @@ static void diff_filespec_check_attr(struct diff_filespec *one)
 			;
 		else if (ATTR_FALSE(value))
 			one->is_binary = 1;
+		else
+			check_from_data = 1;
 
 		/* funcname pattern ident */
 		if (ATTR_TRUE(value) || ATTR_FALSE(value) || ATTR_UNSET(value))
@@ -1187,12 +1190,13 @@ static void diff_filespec_check_attr(struct diff_filespec *one)
 			one->funcname_pattern_ident = value;
 	}
 
-	if (!one->data && DIFF_FILE_VALID(one))
-		diff_populate_filespec(one, 0);
-
-	if (one->data)
-		one->is_binary = buffer_is_binary(one->data, one->size);
+	if (check_from_data) {
+		if (!one->data && DIFF_FILE_VALID(one))
+			diff_populate_filespec(one, 0);
 
+		if (one->data)
+			one->is_binary = buffer_is_binary(one->data, one->size);
+	}
 }
 
 int diff_filespec_is_binary(struct diff_filespec *one)
diff --git a/t/t4020-diff-external.sh b/t/t4020-diff-external.sh
index f0045cd788..ed3bd5b3fe 100755
--- a/t/t4020-diff-external.sh
+++ b/t/t4020-diff-external.sh
@@ -94,4 +94,16 @@ test_expect_success 'diff attribute should apply only to diff' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'no diff with -diff' '
+	echo >.gitattributes "file -diff" &&
+	git diff | grep Binary
+'
+
+echo NULZbetweenZwords | tr Z '\0' > file
+
+test_expect_success 'force diff with "diff"' '
+	echo >.gitattributes "file diff" &&
+	git diff | grep -a second
+'
+
 test_done