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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: treat -crlf files as binary
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:34:01 -0400
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  Unset::
>
> -       Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to
> -       mark the path as a "binary" file.  The path never goes
> -       through line endings conversion upon checkin/checkout.
> +       Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path is tells git
> +       not to attempt any end-of-line conversion  upon checkin/checkout.
[...]

Well, _I_ understand it :)

Avery