Jason Xu <jasonx98@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Here are two small files with non-ASCII data, yet git diff considers > them text instead of binary. Because it is based on heuristics, without a NUL in that short file, the file may not be judged to be binary. echo '* -diff' >.git/info/attributes would tell Git that they need to be treated as binary junk not suited for textual diff (you'd need to tweak the pattern to your need).