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+`git diff` for annexed files, especially unlocked annexed files, is currently uninformative.  It would help if [[`git-annex-init`|git-annex-init]] configured a [git diff driver](https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_generating_diff_text) to diff the contents of the annexed files, rather than the pointer files.