Git Diff Returns Binary Files Differ but no actual lines

Question

I'm doing:

git diff HEAD -- myfle.txt

and getting back:

git diff --git a/myfile.txt b/myfile.txt index .... Binary Files a/myfile.txt b/myfile.txt Differ

"Binary Files Differ" .. but no print-out of the actual lines changed. What Am I doing wrong?

I'm also trying this between branches (i.e. git diff DEV QA -- myfile.txt) same result.

This might be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10324677/1512654 — khartnett, Oct 10 '18 at 21:56
If your files are stored as UTF-16, Git will believe they are binary, since every other byte tends to be zero. — torek, Oct 10 '18 at 21:57
Have you seen this https://stackoverflow.com/a/15009104/446792? — mx0, Oct 10 '18 at 22:03
Should mention that recent git has a solution exactly in the (non-standard) encoding case — Rusi, Feb 14 '19 at 13:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '19 at 10:34

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Change the encoding of your file to UTF-8. If you still don't see the diff then stage the file with git add myfle.txt, edit the file and do git diff again

answered Apr 13 '19 at 10:34

Bar Horing

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