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From: "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>
To: "Michael J Gruber" <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:30:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46dff0320810240630s5cbfa62esd10a9da45ce37bf8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4901C58D.4010309@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Ping Yin venit, vidit, dixit 24.10.2008 14:37:
>> So what should i do if i want it added as text file?
>
> You should give us more detail on the file ;)
> What's the extension, what's the typical content? It may be a simple
> matter of specifying attributes.
> Do ordinary diff and grep recognize your files as text?
>
> Michael
>

It's just an xml file. I guess maybe there are some hidden characters
at the beginning. I will figure it out later because i have no access
to that file right now.

I'm just ask this problem in general sense. So is there a general way
to specify whether  a file is text or binary?



-- 
Ping Yin

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 12:37 git adds some text file as binary file by mistake Ping Yin
2008-10-24 12:54 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-10-24 13:30   ` Ping Yin [this message]
2008-10-24 13:34     ` Bruce Stephens
2008-10-24 13:51     ` Michael J Gruber
2008-10-30  6:32     ` Ping Yin
2008-10-31  0:29       ` Robin Rosenberg

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