Re: git list binary and/or non-binary files?

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Monday 24 August 2009, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to list the files git considers binary in a repository
> (and alternatively, the ones it considers text)? I have a large
> repository and I want to fix line endings for text files that were
> accidentally checked in using CRLF and can't just use the file
> extension alone because some files with the same extension may be
> binary and others not (e.g. UTF-8 .strings file is text, but a UTF-16
> .strings file is binary...git already figured out based on the content
> that one is binary).
>
> I thought maybe git ls-files, but I didn't see anything in there I can
> use for binary vs text.

I use the following to list files that contain CRs, but that are not 
considered binary by Git:

  git grep --cached -I -l -e $'\r'

'git help grep' explains all the options...


Have fun! :)

...Johan

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