Re: [nft PATCH] tests/shell: Treat json-nft dumps as binary in git

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> The stored JSON dumps containing a single line of a thusand characters
> in average mess up diffs in history and patches if they change. Mitigate
> this by treating them as binary files.
> 
> In order to get useable diffs back, one may undo/override the attribute
> within $GIT_DIR/info/attributes, preferrably by defining a custom diff
> driver converting the single-line dumps into something digestable by
> diff:

I'd say we convert the single-line dumps to jq format one-by-one
if they need updating.

New dumps are no longer accepted in single-line format.