From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 16:07:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Git EOL Normalization
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> I think git examines only first block of a file or so.  The heuristic
> to detect binary-ness of a file is, as I have heard, the same or
> similar to the one that GNU diff uses.

Yes, the binary detection was designed to be compatible with GNU diff. But
I do not think it has much to do with the topic of this thread. Aren't
other people discussing the line ending?