g of the contents. However, sometimes you
may want to override its decision, either because a blob contains binary
data later in the file, or because the content, while technically
composed of text characters, is opaque to a human reader. For example,
many postscript files contain only ASCII characters, but produce noisy
and meaningless diffs.</p>
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<p>The simplest way to mark a file as binary is to unset the diff
attribute in the <code>.gitattributes</code> file:</p>
