On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Weiwei Shu <shuww1980@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My first post in this mailing list. Could some one direct me to some > document/manual pages to setup Git to treat ascii files as binary > files? I'm using Git to do circuit schematics (SPICE files) > versioning. I will not do any merging or editing stuff with external > editors. The only way to change it is to use schematic capture GUIs > (Cadence, ADS, etc). So I'd like to treat them as binary files to > reduce the possibilities of messing them up. Git doesn't futz with your file contents unless you explicitly ask it to, such as the CRLF-munging stuff. By default, all files are "binary". Dave. -- 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