[U-Boot] [PATCH] gitattributes: dont treat non-text files as text

[Bin Meng]

Hi Veeraiyan,

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:20 PM Veeraiyan Chidambaram
<external.veeraiyan.c at de.adit-jv.com> wrote:
>
> From: Vignesh Rajendran <vignesh.rajendran at in.bosch.com>
>
> With recent update in u-boot gitattributes all files are treated as regular
> text files. This creates problems with special files and repo always
> shows uncommitted files like below.
>
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
> Changes not staged for commit:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
>
>         modified:   tools/img2brec.sh

This should not be here.

>         modified:   tools/logos/compulab.bmp
>         modified:   tools/logos/denx-comp.bmp
>         modified:   tools/logos/toradex.bmp
>
> To fix above problem special files bmp/ttf files are treated as binary
> files in the gitattributes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh Rajendran <vignesh.rajendran at in.bosch.com>
> Signed-off-by: Veeraiyan Chidambaram <veeraiyan.chidambaram at in.bosch.com>
> ---
>  .gitattributes | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
> index 8560b794c0a7..300cbbcb142a 100644
> --- a/.gitattributes
> +++ b/.gitattributes
> @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
>  # Declare files that always have LF line endings on checkout
>  * text eol=lf

Better add a comment here, something like:

# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified

> +*.bmp binary
> +*.ttf binary
> --

Regards,
Bin