git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Ping Yin]

So what should i do if i want it added as text file?

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Ping Yin

Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Michael J Gruber]

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

Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Ping Yin]

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

Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Bruce Stephens]

"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

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

Yes: gitattributes(5).

Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Michael J Gruber]

Ping Yin venit, vidit, dixit 24.10.2008 15:30:
> 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.

Maybe it's in an encoding which is not available on the machine you're
using git on?

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

Bruce suggested a good read. To save you some time: You want to say

*.xml diff

or

*.xml diff crlf

in one of the attributes files, depending on whether you want git to
possibly translate line endings (which depends on other settings also).
Note that the "content type" of the file plays a role only for diffs and
stats, not for the actual storage (except for, possibly, crlf conversion).

Cheers,
Michael

Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Ping Yin]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ping Yin
>

I have figured it out. It's just because the BOM characters feff00 in
the beginning of the utf-8 xml file.

-- 
Ping Yin

Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

[Robin Rosenberg]

torsdagen den 30 oktober 2008 07.32.47 skrev Ping Yin:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Ping Yin
> >
> 
> I have figured it out. It's just because the BOM characters feff00 in
> the beginning of the utf-8 xml file.

The UTF-8 BOM is EF BB BF, (no NUL.). FEFF is UTF-16 BE (and the third
byte would be 00 for an XML file). I think git currently regards just about
any UTF-16 file as binary becuase of the NUL bytes.

-- robin