From: Allan Wind Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:34:54 GMT Subject: Why does diff --binary include content of files being deleted? Message-ID: <20080622033454.GA10578@lifeintegrity.com> Between tag1 and tag2 I am deleting a number of binary files, and I was surprised seeing the binaries being added to the diff when said files are to be deleted: git diff --binary tag1 tag2 > /tmp/diff && ls -l /tmp/diff -rw-r--r-- 1 allan users 555135993 2008-06-21 22:37 /tmp/diff git diff tag1 tag2 > /tmp/diff2 && ls -l /tmp/diff2 -rw-r--r-- 1 allan users 12862 2008-06-21 23:33 /tmp/diff2 /Allan