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combined diff does not detect binary files and ignores -diff attribute

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
May 22, 2011, 20:12 UTC
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In a merge commit, I added some PNGs (so they were new to both parents). I was surprised when I did a "git show" on the commit and had the binary bits spewed to the terminal.

I thought it was just git not detecting the PNG as a binary file, but adding "*.png -diff" to .git/info/attributes made no difference.

Just reporting this for now, as I don't have time to investigate.
j.
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  7. 1/5 combine-diff: split header printing into its own functionJeff King, May 23, 2011
  8. 2/5 combine-diff: calculate mode_differs earlierJeff King, May 23, 2011
  9. 3/5 combine-diff: handle binary files as binaryJeff King, May 23, 2011
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  17. 4/5 refactor get_textconv to not require diff_filespecJeff King, May 23, 2011
  18. 5/5 combine-diff: respect textconv attributesJeff King, May 23, 2011
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