Git difftool -- how to ignore images?

Question

i'm a git / osx / unix newbie but in my current job, i'm using them all. i run "git difftool" a lot to compare changes in a commit, but any time it runs into an image, i get an error from FileMerge and i have to make a few unnecessary clicks to skip it....sometimes 10 or 20 times for any commit.

i looked but haven't seen any easy way to ignore images during a diff?

Answer 1

See this page from the Pro Git book describing how to tell Git which files in your repositories are binary and how to treat them differently.