----- Original Message -----
> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:07:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Git EOL Normalization
>
> > I think git examines only first block of a file or so. The heuristic
> > to detect binary-ness of a file is, as I have heard, the same or
> > similar to the one that GNU diff uses.
>
> Yes, the binary detection was designed to be compatible with GNU diff. But
> I do not think it has much to do with the topic of this thread. Aren't
> other people discussing the line ending?
The binary detection may be apropos because there are situations (core.autocrlf={true,input} and text=auto) where Git will only do line ending conversion if it detects a text file... But I'll leave it to people who know the code better to say if this binary detection is in fact part of the decision process.
Thanks,
Stephen
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