[Novalug] Switching Branches in GIT
Kevin Cole
dc.loco@gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 11:19:53 EDT 2017
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:17 AM, James Ewing Cottrell III via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> I wonder whether it could just detect whether a file *is* binary and
> not even try diff it. Perhaps we need a .gitbin file, which is formatted
> like .gitignore, declaring various globs and regexps as binary.
Not EXACTLY what you seek, but have a gander at:
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
Among other things, I have occasionally (rarely) used .gitattributes
together with exif (mentioned in the man page above) to track PNGs,
JPEGs and their ilk.
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