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Add the -a param to the docs

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The patch utility does not understand git formatted patches.
For text files, there is no problem, but binary files use the
git format.

The -a param makes git diff put binary files into the patch in
raw format that can be understood by the patch tool.
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@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ If you do need to do create this sort of patch file, one way to do so is with gi
4. Use git to create a diff, and pipe the output to a patch file:
```ShellSession
$ git diff > nixpkgs/pkgs/the/package/0001-changes.patch
$ git diff -a > nixpkgs/pkgs/the/package/0001-changes.patch
```
If a patch is available online but does not cleanly apply, it can be modified in some fixed ways by using additional optional arguments for `fetchpatch`: