Hi again, Lars Schneider wrote: >> On 24 Oct 2017, at 20:14, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In any event, you also probably want to declare what you're doing >> using .gitattributes. By checking in the files as CRLF, you are >> declaring that you do *not* want Git to treat them as text files >> (i.e., you do not want Git to change the line endings), so something >> as simple as >> >> * -text > > That's sounds good. Does "-text" have any other implications? > For whatever reason I always thought this is the way to tell > Git that a particular file is binary with the implication that > Git should not attempt to diff it. No other implications. You're thinking of "-diff". There is also a shortcut "binary" which simply means "-text -diff". Ideas for wording improvements to gitattributes(5) on this subject? Thanks, Jonathan
