How to change the type of a file?

[Angelisium]

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Hi 👋

I have text files that have been detected as binary file ... I need to see the differences when I modify the files and all I can see is the message: "Binary file not shown."

How do I tell github that the files are text files? 😭
edit : Since I don't have time to wait for an answer to this question and that the problem was in a new repository ; I rebuilt the repository from scratch by hand (commit by commit) ; using GitHub Desktop to ensure that files are detected as text files before committing ; and, for the text files detected as binaries, I just copy their content and paste it into a new text file.

Thank you for your answer ❤

[lingr7]

I have binary files that have been detected as text file.I try to .gitattributes to set, but not work.

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