Re: Magit reports binary files that don't exist

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm only working on the console, so I cannot use the mouse. But I will
> follow your recipe anyway, although it seems likely now that my use of
> literal NUL chars in regexps convinced git that my .el files are binary
> files.

Yes, NULs are certainly a reason to consider a file binary.

In console, the recipe is "git log --patch <filename>". This gives you
all commits that modified <filename>, and how they modified it.