Re: [BUG?] Fresh clone of jquery.git shows modifications?

From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 18, 2010, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <1282149456.24584.114.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik8RGR4OTeZYsttyBtiywGU7Wtz3gQsTjoqAQPD@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 17:50 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote:

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> Hi,
> [snip]
> > Just to re-state: This is not "my repository". That is, I don't consider
> > it to be. So I would prefer only solutions which involve editing
> > something unversioned, such as .git/config, rather than making random
> > patches which feel very much like work-arounds to a git problem.
> 
> Such a solution exists, you can create a file .git/info/attributes,
> which will override the faulty .gitattributes file in the repository
> [1]. Then you could make git treat all files as binary files, making
> no conversions. Using this unversioned file also enables you to jump
> back in history, rebase etc. without problems.
>

.git/info/attributes
* -crlf

seems to be what I was looking for! Thank you.

Though I very much think the way git currently acts in this situation is quite inexcusably broken.

> Hope this helps,
> Thomas
> 
> [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html