Re: Consequences of CRLF in index?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2017, 17:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20171025171357.4nk4aj2c4m4b6kl3@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <07309D89-F536-4DA8-9214-B605007845C6@gmail.com>

Hi again,

Lars Schneider wrote:

>> On 24 Oct 2017, at 20:14, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> In any event, you also probably want to declare what you're doing
>> using .gitattributes.  By checking in the files as CRLF, you are
>> declaring that you do *not* want Git to treat them as text files
>> (i.e., you do not want Git to change the line endings), so something
>> as simple as
>>
>> 	* -text
>
> That's sounds good. Does "-text" have any other implications?
> For whatever reason I always thought this is the way to tell
> Git that a particular file is binary with the implication that
> Git should not attempt to diff it.

No other implications. You're thinking of "-diff". There is also a shortcut "binary" which simply means "-text -diff".

Ideas for wording improvements to gitattributes(5) on this subject?

Thanks, Jonathan