From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:16:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: treat -crlf files as binary Message-ID: <81b0412b0808310216h6c349e1en740a1f4c7fef75e6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vljyefaps.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> 2008/8/30 Junio C Hamano : > diff --git i/Documentation/gitattributes.txt w/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > index db16b0c..ec8a860 100644 > --- i/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > +++ w/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > @@ -105,9 +105,8 @@ Set:: > > 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. "+ Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path tells git" (remove "is" before "tells")