On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 17:50 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > Just to re-state: This is not "my repository". That is, I don't consider > > it to be. So I would prefer only solutions which involve editing > > something unversioned, such as .git/config, rather than making random > > patches which feel very much like work-arounds to a git problem. > > Such a solution exists, you can create a file .git/info/attributes, > which will override the faulty .gitattributes file in the repository > [1]. Then you could make git treat all files as binary files, making > no conversions. Using this unversioned file also enables you to jump > back in history, rebase etc. without problems. > .git/info/attributes * -crlf seems to be what I was looking for! Thank you. Though I very much think the way git currently acts in this situation is quite inexcusably broken. > Hope this helps, > Thomas > > [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html