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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: git diff vs git diff-files
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:09:18 +0200
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Whatever you do next, *please* post the *exact* file contents *and*
> output in a format that does not suffer any transport damage, neither to
> whitespace nor to binary data (such as terminal escapes).  Piping
> through xxd comes to mind, perhaps by using
>
>   GIT_PAGER=xxd git -p diff ....  >diff-hexdump
>
> etc. to ensure that git takes the same code paths as when writing to
> less.

Or use script(1).

Andreas.

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