Why 'git diff' returns only file path without content?

Asked May 11 '21 at 19:56

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If I run 'git diff' on my repo it gives:

$ git diff
diff --git a/chapterOne.txt b/chapterOne.txt
index 3608209..1e48a32 100644
Binary files a/chapterOne.txt and b/chapterOne.txt differ

why it show only path? It should returns the changes in my files.

asked May 11 '21 at 19:56

macko

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Because it believes these files are binary, and doesn't want to print non-printable junk – Eugene Sh. May 11 '21 at 19:58
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Probably UTF-8 (or some other) encoding on the text file? – eftshift0 May 11 '21 at 20:00
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@eftshift0 : did you mean UTF-16 ? iirc, git simply checks if it sees a `\0` byte at the beginning (first few kilobytes) of a file – LeGEC May 11 '21 at 20:24
You got that one right, @LeGEC. UTF-16 (or some other) :-) – eftshift0 May 11 '21 at 20:45

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