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

1 messages from 2018-06-27 to 2018-06-27. Participants: Steve Groeger.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48787

## Steve Groeger, 2018-06-27 07:50

Subject: Use of new .gitattributes working-tree-encoding attribute across different platform types
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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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 Steve Groeger
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