From: david@lang.hm
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:13:07 GMT
Subject: Re: how to configure Git to treat certain type of ascii files as binary files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810221511590.24463@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <65d12cb10810221458j14ef0009u679cdb0f73299d7f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Weiwei Shu wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My first post in this mailing list. Could some one direct me to some
> document/manual pages to setup Git to treat ascii files as binary
> files? I'm using Git to do circuit schematics (SPICE files)
> versioning. I will not do any merging or editing stuff with external
> editors. The only way to change it is to use schematic capture GUIs
> (Cadence, ADS, etc). So I'd like to treat them as binary files to
> reduce the possibilities of messing them up.
>
> I know it seems a little bit stupid to use Git to do such an easy job.
> But hey, it's the most eye-catching SCM software, isn't it?

unless you enable cr/lf handling git won't change ascii files.

what is it that you think needs to be done differently for these files 
than for any other files?

David Lang