From: Avery Pennarun Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:34:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: treat -crlf files as binary Message-ID: <32541b130808301934t6034d52bva0f8c3608a88e585@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vljyefaps.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Unset:: > > - Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to > - mark the path as a "binary" file. The path never goes > - through line endings conversion upon checkin/checkout. > + Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path is tells git > + not to attempt any end-of-line conversion upon checkin/checkout. [...] Well, _I_ understand it :) Avery