no diff output when using “git diff HEAD file.c”

Question

I'm trying to diff the modified file with the latest checked in version and this is the output I see:

$ git diff HEAD file.c
diff --git a/path/to/file.c b/path/to/file.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 5f8af1c..a828cb0
Binary files  a/path/to/file.c and b/path/to/file.c differ

I want to see the actual difference, can you please help me look at that?

Answer 1

The files are treated as binary files, possibly due to the text encoding. Make sure the files are saved with single byte character encoding, if they are indeed text files.