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POWhy still care about newline conversions in git? Why not binary all-the-way?
 

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    <p>Shortend question:</p> <p>Can I solve my various Git line-ending cross-platform conversion problems by using .gitattributes and setting the problematic files to binary? I have no control over the repo or the users settings.</p> <p>Also: is CRLF still needed at-all for web-oriented Windows development? Most tools have either auto-detection or options to switch mode and seem to work fine with LF-only.</p> <p>(removed rant)</p> <p>Note: I already read many (all?) answers about this here on SO, read the <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings" rel="nofollow">help</a>, read the <a href="http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-1.html" rel="nofollow">book</a> and burned way too much time on this.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> </p> <p>I'm not looking at <a href="https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html" rel="nofollow">this help file</a> and it mentions un-setting <code>text</code> in .gitattributes:</p> <blockquote> <p>Unset</p> <p>Unsetting the text attribute on a path tells git not to attempt any end-of-line conversion upon checkin or checkout.</p> </blockquote> <p>Why both "help.github.com" and "git-scm.com" don't mention this as a possible solutions is beyond me, but the description looks good. </p> <p>But the github help does mentions it cursory, which is why I think this is what I want.</p> <blockquote> <p>binary setting is an alias for -text -diff</p> </blockquote> <p>I'm going to try that, and update if it works out.</p> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong> </p> <p>It worked! Use <code>*.txt -text</code> in .gitattributes did the trick: no conversions but still diffable and line/char summaries etc)</p>
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    1. COYou might want to trim your question a bit, to focus on the specific technical query (forcing everything to be binary). The rest of your question comes across as a rant.
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    2. CO@GrahamBorland it was born out of frustration. I pre-pended my ranty original with a shortened version.
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    3. CO"binary" has a specific meaning in git. In C stdio it means don't do `\n` translations, but in git it means the data isn't text at all, that there's no good way to map it to "lines", whatever they are.
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