patch for the path
or to treat the path as a binary file.  It can also affect what line is
shown on the hunk header <code>@@ -k,l +n,m @@</code> line, tell Git to use an
external command to generate the diff, or ask Git to convert binary
files to a text format before generating the diff.</p>
</div>
<div class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">Set</dt>
<dd>
<p>A path to which the <code>diff</code> attribute is set is treated
as text, even when they contain byte values that
normally never appear i