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Andrey Yaskulsky
Andrey Yaskulsky

Reputation: 2526

mark folder as binary in .gitattributes

I have to include some folder to a repository but I don't want my git to modify it's content (line endings etc)

I already have some files that are marked as binary files in .gitattributes i.e. images:

*.png binary

but this rule specifies certain category of files - png files, however I want to achieve something like that:

/folder_which_i_want_to_mark_as_binary binary

Upvotes: 15

Views: 11326

Answers (2)

emmenlau
emmenlau

Reputation: 1039

The currently accepted answer did not work for me. Possibly the behavior changed in recent versions of git. Quoting from the manual of gitattributes:

The rules by which the pattern matches paths are the same as in .gitignore files (see gitignore[5]), with a few exceptions:

  • negative patterns are forbidden
  • patterns that match a directory do not recursively match paths inside that directory (so using the trailing-slash path/ syntax is pointless in an attributes file; use path/** instead)

Therefore, to treat a whole folder as binary, use the following syntax:

folder_which_i_want_to_mark_as_binary/** binary

Tested with git version 2.20.1.

Upvotes: 28

e.doroskevic
e.doroskevic

Reputation: 2167

In order to fix line endings you can apply following instructions

UNIX System

git config --global core.autocrlf input

Windows System

git config --global core.autocrlf true

Alternatively (in .gitattributes)

If you want to treat as binary everything in a particular folder, in .gitattributes you could add something like

*.sh text eol=lf
*.bat text eol=crlf
folder/* binary

Note: folder must be the name of your folder.

Upvotes: 1

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