patch_generate: only calculate binary diffs if requested #3922
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When generating diffs for binary files, we load and decompress
the blobs in order to generate the actual diff, which can be very
costly. While we cannot avoid this for the case when we are
called with the
GIT_DIFF_SHOW_BINARY
flag, we do not have toload the blobs in the case where this flag is not set, as the
caller is expected to have no interest in the actual content of
binary files.
Fix the issue by only generating a binary diff when the caller is
actually interested in the diff. As libgit2 uses heuristics to
determine that a blob contains binary data by inspecting its size
without loading from the ODB, this saves us quite some time when
diffing in a repository with binary files.