From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:32:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake
Message-ID: <46dff0320810292332y34ea0daemde05b58572946497@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320810240630s5cbfa62esd10a9da45ce37bf8@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Ping Yin venit, vidit, dixit 24.10.2008 14:37:
>>> So what should i do if i want it added as text file?
>>
>> You should give us more detail on the file ;)
>> What's the extension, what's the typical content? It may be a simple
>> matter of specifying attributes.
>> Do ordinary diff and grep recognize your files as text?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> It's just an xml file. I guess maybe there are some hidden characters
> at the beginning. I will figure it out later because i have no access
> to that file right now.
>
> Ping Yin
>

I have figured it out. It's just because the BOM characters feff00 in
the beginning of the utf-8 xml file.

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Ping Yin