Re: Use of new .gitattributes working-tree-encoding attribute across different platform types

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jun 27, 2018, 17:38 UTC
Message-ID: <b0039999-fe6f-eee3-5cc6-4ca638dddf79@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <OF5D40FE06.C18CD7CD-ON002582B9.002B7A02-002582B9.002B7A07@notes.na.collabserv.com>

On 27.06.18 09:54, Steve Groeger wrote:

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> Hi, 
> 
> Sorry for incomplete post earlier. Here is the full post:
> 
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> In the latest version of git a new attribute has been added, working-tree-encoding. The release notes states: 
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> 'The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
>    contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
>    tree (and the other way around when checking in).'
>  We have been using this attribute on our z/OS systems using a version of git from Rocket software to convert files to EBCDIC for quite a while now. On other platforms (Linux, AIX etc) git ignored this attribute and therefore left the files in ASCII.
> 
> We have common code that is supposed to be usable across different platforms and hence different file encodings. With the full support of the working-tree-encoding in the latest version of git on all platforms, how do we have files converted to different encodings on different platforms?
> I could not find anything that would allow us to say 'if platform = z/OS then encoding=EBCDIC else encoding=ASCII'.   Is there a way this can be done?
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> Thanks
>  Steve Groeger

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Did you consider to put a gitattributes file on machine level ?

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

[snipped the other places where to put gitattributes] ... Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes file.

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