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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2023-07-05T18:55:33Z"
+ content="""
+If your annexed files have a common extension you can match them in
+.gitattributes that way.
+
+I've added support for passing options for diff. Eg:
+       
+       git annex diffdriver --text -- --color --text --
+
+As for passing --color automatically, I don't know if every diff(1) supports
+--color, and this would be more complexity.
+
+I doubt that most users would appreciate diff --text by default for large
+binary files. That is really getting into territory that an external 
+diff driver program can handle much better. Eg, if you're diffing jpegs and
+also zip files, you can write a diff driver program that lists the contents of
+zip files and passes that to diff, and that uses imagemagick
+`compare -compose` or <https://github.com/x1ddos/imgdiff> 
+to show a visual diff between two jpegs.
+
+The point off the --text option is that sometimes you know you have plain
+text and so writing such a program is not necessary.
+"""]]