# How to deal with .bin files while using git?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-deal-with-bin-files-while-using-git/100386>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-deal-with-bin-files-while-using-git/100386 "2025-01-02T16:49:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zied\_Brahmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/5daacb/32.png) [@Zied\_Brahmi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Zied_Brahmi)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-deal-with-bin-files-while-using-git/100386/1 "2025-01-02T16:49:29Z")

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Hello Forum,  
As you all know, git is bad at merging binaries (for example data.bin for gateaway events) (they are binaries so that's normal).  
How do we handle that? are there a magic way to not chose one binary over the other and to merge correctly the binaries?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-deal-with-bin-files-while-using-git/100386/2 "2025-01-02T17:30:50Z")

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No, sorry.

Version 8.3, coming soon, addresses this issue by making all config text-based.