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Re: [PATCH] diff: treat -crlf files as binary

From
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2008, 18:34 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I am actually more surprised by the lack of any surprised comment about
> the unadvertised presense of "binary" (pseudo)attribute, though.  The
> support has been there since f48fd68 (attribute macro support,
> 2007-04-14), two days after introduction of gitattributes mechanism.

Er, well, I was actually talking about a *hypothetical* "binary" attribute when I commented on this in the first place. But when there then turned out to actually be one that worked exactly as I wanted, I was hardly going to be the first to complain :)

Have fun,
Avery
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  1. diff: treat -crlf files as binaryJunio C Hamano, Aug 29, 2008
  2. Avery PennarunAug 29, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2008
  4. Avery PennarunAug 31, 2008
  5. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2008
  6. Alex RiesenAug 31, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2008
  8. Avery PennarunAug 31, 2008

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