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diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 059123c5d..37e60ca60 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -2783,8 +2783,25 @@ int diff_populate_filespec(struct diff_filespec *s, unsigned int flags)
s->should_free = 1;
return 0;
}
- if (size_only)
+
+ /*
+ * Even if the caller would be happy with getting
+ * only the size, we cannot return early at this
+ * point if the path requires us to run the content
+ * conversion.
+ */
+ if (size_only && !would_convert_to_git(s->path))
return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Note: this check uses xsize_t(st.st_size) that may
+ * not be the true size of the blob after it goes
+ * through convert_to_git(). This may not strictly be
+ * correct, but the whole point of big_file_threshold
+ * and is_binary check being that we want to avoid
+ * opening the file and inspecting the contents, this
+ * is probably fine.
+ */
if ((flags & CHECK_BINARY) &&
s->size > big_file_threshold && s->is_binary == -1) {
s->is_binary = 1;