diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20221219-193435.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20221219-193435.yaml
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+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Treat dense text blobs as binary for `git grep`
+time: 2022-12-19T19:34:35.890275-07:00
+custom:
+  Author: dbeatty10
+  Issue: "6294"
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+core/dbt/include/index.html binary
+tests/functional/artifacts/data/state/*/manifest.json binary