Have you tried just forcing diff to treat the files as text:

diff -ua abc abc2

As explained [here][1].

• -u output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context
• -a treat all files as text

This should get you a patch. The downside of this is the 'lines' could be quite long and that could bloat the patch. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Binary.html

Have you tried just forcing diff to treat the files as text:

diff -ua abc abc2

As explained here.

• -u output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context
• -a treat all files as text

This should get you a patch. The downside of this is the 'lines' could be quite long and that could bloat the patch.

Have you tried just forcing diff to treat the files as text:

diff -una abc abc2

As explained [here][1].

• -u output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context
• -n output an RCS format diff
• -a treat all files as text

This should get you a patch. The downside of this is the 'lines' could be quite long and that could bloat the patch. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Binary.html

Have you tried just forcing diff to treat the files as text:

diff -ua abc abc2

As explained [here][1].

• -u output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context
• -a treat all files as text

This should get you a patch. The downside of this is the 'lines' could be quite long and that could bloat the patch. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Binary.html