Top "Gitattributes" questions

Git attributes provide the option to set various settings for a set of files/directories.

What is the purpose of `text=auto` in `.gitattributes` file?

Mostly .gitattributes file has * text=auto. What is the purpose of text=auto in that file?

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How to normalize working tree line endings in Git?

I have cloned a repository that had inconsistend line endings. I have added a .gitattributes that sets the text attribute …

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Where should I place my global 'gitattributes' file?

I gather there is (despite the lack of documentation) a way to set Git attributes globally; but I'm not clear …

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How to create a Git attributes file

I would like to add an attributes file to my Git repository as described here. It indicates that I should …

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How can I make git ignore future revisions to a file?

I have created a default version of a file included in a git repository. It's important that when someone clones …

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How to to disable Git end-of-line (CRLF to LF) across all clones/machines?

As one can glean from other posts, Git's end-of-line normalization has its pros and cons. I have one particular Windows-only …

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git ignoring .gitattributes pattern

I've a directory structure like this: root/ .git deploy/ Site/ blah/ more_blah/ something.local else.development Rakefile .gitattributes Edit: …

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What will `* text=auto eol=lf` in gitattributes do?

We have this in our .gitattributes file: * text=auto eol=lf I'd like to precisely understand what this does. The …

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How to automatically invoke a script before a git add?

Here's my use case: I commit PNGs and other stuff in my Git repo. I would like to apply a …

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Using gitattributes for linguist examples

Are there any concrete examples, in order to detect wrong languages in GitHub via Linguist attributes? Source: https://github.com/…

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