. gitattributes not working

Question

My .gitattributes has the following in order to diff the XCode project (which is plain text)

*.pbxproj -crlf -diff -merge

But when I diff, still showing binary file

# git diff MyApp.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
diff --git a/MyApp.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/MyApp.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index xxx..xxx xxx
Binary files a/MyApp.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj and b/MyApp.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj differ

My .gitattributes is in the same level of .git folder

Answer 1

Correct. Your .gitattributes is saying to treat the file as binary when it comes to diffing and merging. Take a look at this StackOverflow question, which is awfully similar to yours: Git and pbxproj