So as far as I can see, git is behaving exactly as it is supposed to.
Maybe you can be more specific about what effect you were trying to
achieve by setting gitattributes in the first place?
To exclude it in diffs, such as from `git show`. Take the case where you have
a grammar file for a parser and generate a source file from it(or any similar
scenario); the diff for the generated source file is not of interest and is
just noisy when read as part of a patch. This applies to all kinds of
generated files. However, this doesn't mean that the file should be treated
as a binary, and what practicalities that implies.
I am not sure it is a good idea, but you can do this with
FILE diff=/bin/true
If -diff affects whether a file is treated as a binary, as opposed whether
it's diff'ed, it would imo make sense to call it -binary.
No, diff affects how a file is diffed. The particular setting "-diff"
diffs the file as if it was binary.
Paolo
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