Comment by kortex

I think you misunderstand the functionality. It doesn't ingnore the diff completely. it just replaces the full contents with "`Binary files differ"

> Use -diff to completely hide the internal file content during a diff. Git will only report `Binary files differ` if the file changes.

Same like you would binary files. It's still good advice to actually review the lockfile changes at some point.

You can also apparently write transformers to make it more human readable.