Disabling astextplain?

[aursulis]

Is there a good way to permanently disable the astextplain diff conversion? I can edit the system gitconfig, but that gets overwritten with every git update, which is annoying to have to repeat.

I don't believe you can "unset" a config in global scope that's been set at system scope, and I also tried a global scope .gitattributes file, but I either don't know how to hold it correctly, or that doesn't work as expected.

[dscho]

Maybe it works if you put this into your ~/.gitattributes?

*.doc	!diff
*.DOC	!diff
*.docx	!diff
*.DOCX	!diff
*.docm	!diff
*.DOCM	!diff
*.dot	!diff
*.DOT	!diff
*.dotx	!diff
*.DOTX	!diff
*.dotm	!diff
*.DOTM	!diff
*.pdf	!diff
*.PDF	!diff
*.rtf	!diff
*.RTF	!diff
*.ods	!diff
*.ODS	!diff
*.odf	!diff
*.ODF	!diff
*.odt	!diff
*.ODT	!diff

See the gitattributes documentation for full details.

[aursulis]

Thanks, so turns out it is indeed a part of me not holding it correctly:

1. I was trying "-diff" instead of "!diff"
2. Actually, the file is not ~/.gitattributes, but rather ~/.config/git/attributes

[dscho]

1. I was trying "-diff" instead of "!diff"

Heh, I made the same mistake, but Claude Opus found out what I did wrong ;-)

2. Actually, the file is not ~/.gitattributes, but rather ~/.config/git/attributes

Right you are, my mistake, sorry!