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Expand Up @@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ That's all you need to do - after git-crypt is set up (either with
`git-crypt init` or `git-crypt unlock`), you can use git normally -
encryption and decryption happen transparently.

To check if a file will be encrypted before committing it:

git add path/new/file
git diff --cached

The diff output will show `Binary files ... ... differ` instead of the contents of the file.

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