From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:34:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: treat -crlf files as binary
Message-ID: <32541b130808311134ia3bdab6w37c26649717085aa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vej45b18y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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