Re: Surprising interaction of "binary" and "eol" gitattributes

Torsten Bögershausen [off-list ref] writes:

On 03/10/2015 11:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

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Well, that's true, but the "eol" attribute can regain its effect if
"binary" is followed by "text" or "text=auto". So I guess the simplest
question is as follows. Suppose I have the following .gitattributes:

     a.foo eol=crlf
     a.foo binary
     a.foo text

As binary is not just -text and turns other things off, those other
things will be off after these three.

Not sure if I follow:
Whenever you specify -text, the eol doesn't matter, or what do I miss ?

Something unrelated to the main theme of this topic ;-).

I was just saying that saying "a.foo text" is not a way to take your
earlier mistake of saying "a.foo binary" back, if that "binary" was
placed on the path by mistake or an over-eager globbing.  The 'text'
attribute will be reset, but -diff you placed on the path by saying
"binary" is still there after these three attribute lines and running
"git diff a.foo" would sill show the effect from it.