bun.sh/docs/guides/install/git-diff-bun-lockfile.md

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Configure git to diff Bun's lockb lockfile

{% callout %} Bun v1.1.39 introduced bun.lock, a JSONC formatted lockfile. bun.lock is human-readable and git-diffable without configuration, at no cost to performance. Learn more. {% /callout %}

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To teach git how to generate a human-readable diff of Bun's binary lockfile format (.lockb), add the following to your local or global .gitattributes file:

*.lockb binary diff=lockb

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Then add the following to you local git config with:

$ git config diff.lockb.textconv bun
$ git config diff.lockb.binary true

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To globally configure git to diff Bun's lockfile, add the following to your global git config with:

$ git config --global diff.lockb.textconv bun
$ git config --global diff.lockb.binary true

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How this works

Why this works:

• textconv tells git to run bun on the file before diffing
• binary tells git to treat the file as binary (so it doesn't try to diff it line-by-line)

In Bun, you can execute Bun's lockfile (bun ./bun.lockb) to generate a human-readable version of the lockfile and git diff can then use that to generate a human-readable diff.