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

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jay Soffian venit, vidit, dixit 22.05.2011 22:12:
>> 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.
>
> We know, but we somehow got stuck, see:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171613
>
> I don't have the time to follow up on this currently, it got out of
> proportion.

Drat, seems like the perfect being the enemy of the good there. I
wonder if Junio's patch in that thread isn't good enough for now.

Thanks,

j.
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