Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > > > If I occasionally need to do a > > > > git add -kb binary.txt > > > > to flag a file explicitely, that's a small price to pay for everything > > else to work out of the box. > > For you, perhaps, since you apparently infrequently commit binary files > and derive some benefit from CRLF conversion. But please bear in mind > that there are people on the other end of the spectrum who want the > opposite (i.e., who could care less about CRLF, but _do_ have binary > files). Do not forget the people who say that git is a content tracker (as opposed to a content munger). Git was really intended as a tracker of octet strings which are organised in tree structures, and where you can have revisions over those tree structures. That is the beauty of git: it keeps simple things simple. Now, for some, this is a curse ;-) Ciao, Dscho - 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
