Re: git adds some text file as binary file by mistake

torsdagen den 30 oktober 2008 07.32.47 skrev Ping Yin:

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Ping Yin [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

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Ping Yin venit, vidit, dixit 24.10.2008 14:37:

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So what should i do if i want it added as text file?

You should give us more detail on the file ;)
What's the extension, what's the typical content? It may be a simple
matter of specifying attributes.
Do ordinary diff and grep recognize your files as text?

Michael

It's just an xml file. I guess maybe there are some hidden characters
at the beginning. I will figure it out later because i have no access
to that file right now.

Ping Yin

I have figured it out. It's just because the BOM characters feff00 in
the beginning of the utf-8 xml file.

The UTF-8 BOM is EF BB BF, (no NUL.). FEFF is UTF-16 BE (and the third
byte would be 00 for an XML file). I think git currently regards just about
any UTF-16 file as binary becuase of the NUL bytes.

-- robin