On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 03:41:45PM -0700, Stas Bekman wrote: > $ git config --get diff.jupyternotebook.command > git-nbdiffdriver diff That's an "external diff driver", not a textconv driver. So here: > $ GIT_TRACE=1 git diff-tree -p HEAD --textconv test/test.ipynb > <shows normal diff, ignoring nbdiff> You probably want "--ext-diff", not "--textconv". There's some discussion in the gitattributes manpage, but the short of it is that textconv converts binary input to text, which is then fed through the normal diff mechanism. Whereas an external diff driver is given both sides and can produce whatever output it wants. Textconv is less flexible, but generally way easier to write. -Peff