Thanks Jakub. I'll read its manual and try to play with it. Thank all for replies! On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Weiwei Shu" <shuww1980@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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. >> >> I know it seems a little bit stupid to use Git to do such an easy job. >> But hey, it's the most eye-catching SCM software, isn't it? > > First, git does not modify files unless you have core.crlf set, > and even then it warns about irreversible transformations > (core.safecrlf) > > Second, using gitattributes you can set diff driver and merge driver; > one of possibilities is to treat file as binary (binary diff and no > using 3-way file merge). > > -- > Jakub Narebski > Poland > ShadeHawk on #git > -- Weiwei --Hope Springs Eternal. -- 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
