title: Override git's choice of binary file to text
body: <p>I've seen several question asking how to make git treat a text file as binary, but haven't seen the opposite yet:</p>
  <p>How do I change git's choice of treating a text file as binary? I have a text file where in some configuration strings an EOT and ETX is used to separate parts of the configuration parameters.</p>
  <p>For example, the source code contains lines like this:</p>
  <pre><code>INPUT 'ScrollRemote[EOT]no[ETX]NumDown[EOT]0[ETX]CalcWidth[EOT]no[ETX]MaxWidth[EOT]80[ETX]FetchOnReposToEnd[EOT]yes[ETX].....'
  </code></pre>
  <p>I would like this file to be treated as text, not a binary, so that I can see a diff of line changes.</p>