On 21 May 2015 at 04:33, Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> writes: >> for some strange resold, git considers my emacs.org file (which is a text >> file) as a binary. This is only in one repository, and other .org files are >> seen as text. > > http://fileinfo.com/extension/org says that .org is the extension used > by Lotus Organizer, so perhaps someone along the line has set the Git > installation or repository to assume that such files are binary.
AFAIU git completely disregards the file ending when determining whether a file is binary or not. See e.g. answer one to <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6119956/how-to-determine-if-git-handles-a-file-as-binary-or-as-text>. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
