torsdagen den 30 oktober 2008 07.32.47 skrev Ping Yin: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Michael J Gruber > > <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Ping Yin venit, vidit, dixit 24.10.2008 14:37: > >>> So what should i do if i want it added as text file? > >> > >> You should give us more detail on the file ;) > >> What's the extension, what's the typical content? It may be a simple > >> matter of specifying attributes. > >> Do ordinary diff and grep recognize your files as text? > >> > >> Michael > >> > > > > It's just an xml file. I guess maybe there are some hidden characters > > at the beginning. I will figure it out later because i have no access > > to that file right now. > > > > Ping Yin > > > > I have figured it out. It's just because the BOM characters feff00 in > the beginning of the utf-8 xml file. The UTF-8 BOM is EF BB BF, (no NUL.). FEFF is UTF-16 BE (and the third byte would be 00 for an XML file). I think git currently regards just about any UTF-16 file as binary becuase of the NUL bytes. -- robin -- 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
