From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To: "Weiwei Shu" <shuww1980@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to configure Git to treat certain type of ascii files as binary files
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:13:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20810221513td0b9620n4a7692dcc966e962@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65d12cb10810221458j14ef0009u679cdb0f73299d7f@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Weiwei Shu <shuww1980@gmail.com> wrote:
> My first post in this mailing list. Could some one direct me to some
> document/manual pages to setup Git to treat ascii files as binary
> files? I'm using Git to do circuit schematics (SPICE files)
> versioning. I will not do any merging or editing stuff with external
> editors. The only way to change it is to use schematic capture GUIs
> (Cadence, ADS, etc). So I'd like to treat them as binary files to
> reduce the possibilities of messing them up.
Git doesn't futz with your file contents unless you explicitly ask it
to, such as the CRLF-munging stuff. By default, all files are
"binary".
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 21:58 how to configure Git to treat certain type of ascii files as binary files Weiwei Shu
2008-10-22 22:13 ` david
2008-10-22 22:35 ` Weiwei Shu
2008-10-22 22:13 ` David Symonds [this message]
2008-10-22 22:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-23 1:12 ` Weiwei Shu
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