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Subject: Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake
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"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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).