Re: "git diff" does not show a diff for newly added, binary files

From: Thorsten Otto <admin@tho-otto.de>
Date: Apr 4, 2023, 10:39 UTC
Message-ID: <2349908.kWcu0K8Tai@earendil>
In-Reply-To: <8135fc7b-1953-4702-a9c4-b0f847e69887@app.fastmail.com>

On Dienstag, 4. April 2023 12:17:43 CEST Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:

> Do you use `.gitattributes` to get these binary diffs? What does it look
> like?

No, the repo was just created for demonstrating purposes. But when i commit that last change, then do a "git --format-patch -1", i get something like

diff --git a/b b/b
new file mode 100644
index 
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a64a5a93fb4aef4d5f63d79cb2582731b9ac5063
GIT binary patch
literal 512
NcmZQz7zHCa1ONg600961

literal 0
HcmV?d00001


I would expect "git diff" to output the same information. I don't see a reason 
why it outputs the diff for a new text file, but not for a binary file?