From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:09:08 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitattributes and defaulting to binary
Message-ID: <20130916220908.GC5477@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOTvmonjWtUM42ATpEu+s6GVcpTO10BT0izXVB_aqK2npgRfWQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 05:35:24PM -0400, Matthieu Vachon wrote:

> But I was not able to achieve it right now. When having this in my
> `.gitattributes`, git treats all files as binary, even the one
> explicitly specified like `*.txt`:
> 
>     *.txt text
>     * binary

>From "git help attributes":

  When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line overrides an
  earlier line. This overriding is done per attribute.

Reversing the two lines should do what you want.

You may also want to use "-text" instead of "binary"; the latter also
implies "-diff", which means you will never see diffs of those files,
even if they are actually text.

-Peff