Why git decide that my file is binary

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I have added plain text file to the repository and git decided that it is a binary file. Here is my file (link) and github show it as plain text file.

But if I try to look at changes which have been made by last commit I see the message

Binary file not shown

Do you see the same thing if you do a git log -p locally? This might just be a github bug — Andy Ray, Dec 22 '11 at 07:48

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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From cloning your repo, I see that the file in question is UTF-16. I don't believe git supports this as a text format. See this link for more info.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Dec 22 '11 at 07:47

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '11 at 07:48

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It is encoded in UTF-16. Try changing the encoding to ASCII or UTF-8 and commit and push.

answered Dec 22 '11 at 07:48

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Why git decide that my file is binary

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