I WROTE THIS

git diff B.txt

OUTPUT

diff --git a/B.txt b/B.txt index 3bcc974..7be6bf0 100644 Binary files a/B.txt and b/B.txt differ

BUT ME i want to see the content about the changes could help me

CodePudding user response：

Git has identified that file as binary files rather than text, probably because it contains some unexpected control characters. You can use the -a (--text) option to git diff to force git to treat the files as text:

git diff -a B.txt

CodePudding user response：

The problem here is that Git has looked in the file B.txt and decided that it is not a text file, but a "binary file". This could be because it contains a character that is not "text", or perhaps it has very long lines.

Git has to guess if the file is text or not (it can't tell by looking at the .txt in its name). For binary files (such as image files), git will just print a message to say if the file is the same or different, rather than show you the differences.

Probably B.txt has an extended character that is not in ASCII or UTF-8.

You can tell git that this is in fact a text file by creating a file named .gitattributes (this file's name must start with a period) in your project's main directory, with following content:

*.txt diff

Then typing git diff B.txt should print the actual difference out, because git will treat files ending in .txt as files that can be differenced, no matter what they actually contain.

I suspect you might be using non-UTF8 for most of your files, so that you will need to add other file extensions to this list. Here's an example:

*.java diff
*.js diff
*.pl diff
*.txt diff
*.ts diff
*.html diff
*.sh diff
*.xml diff