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

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date
Apr 4, 2023, 11:29 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, at 13:23, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> How can that be done? I mean, git detects that file to be binary. I certainly 
> don't want to treat it as text, and then dump binary data to the terminal when 
> they differ ;)
I used something like this when I last needed to diff binary files: https://superuser.com/a/706286/259670
-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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