On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I happen to have quite large binary files in my repos. > > Today I realized that a line like > git log -G a > searches also files found to be binary (or explicitly marked as binary). > > Is that on purpose? No, it's a mere oversight (as I do not think I never even thought about special casing binary files from day one, it is unlikely that you would find _any_ old version of Git that behaves differently).