Subject: Re: Bug report: .gitattributes: -diff Unset causes files to be reported as binaries
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2009-07-02 11:12:28 GMT (36 weeks, 18 hours and 3 minutes ago)
>> So as far as I can see, git is behaving exactly as it is supposed to. >> Maybe you can be more specific about what effect you were trying to >> achieve by setting gitattributes in the first place? > > To exclude it in diffs, such as from `git show`. Take the case where you have > a grammar file for a parser and generate a source file from it(or any similar > scenario); the diff for the generated source file is not of interest and is > just noisy when read as part of a patch. This applies to all kinds of > generated files. However, this doesn't mean that the file should be treated > as a binary, and what practicalities that implies. I am not sure it is a good idea, but you can do this with FILE diff=/bin/true > If -diff affects whether a file is treated as a binary, as opposed whether > it's diff'ed, it would imo make sense to call it -binary. No, diff affects how a file is diffed. The particular setting "-diff" diffs the file as if it was binary. Paolo