From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:13:13 GMT
Subject: Re: how to configure Git to treat certain type of ascii files as binary files
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20810221513td0b9620n4a7692dcc966e962@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <65d12cb10810221458j14ef0009u679cdb0f73299d7f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Weiwei Shu <shuww1980@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Git doesn't futz with your file contents unless you explicitly ask it
to, such as the CRLF-munging stuff. By default, all files are
"binary".


Dave.