[Kde-games-devel] ksnape has binary data

Ian Wadham iandw.au at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 20:38:06 UTC 2012


On 20/03/2012, at 6:30 PM, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> if you checkout r54101, you find files like data/backgrounds/Bark.xpm
> 
> because they start like text files git treats them as such. But  
> they end with binary data, so the audit filters will not accept pushing that.
> 
> how can I tell git they are binary? I suppose that should be done by
> svn2git but that contains no code which looks like allowing that
> (grep gitattributes)
> 
> or do I need yet another audit exception?

Could you just throw away the binary data?  IIRC .xpm files are supposed
to be compilable in C, so they should normally end at the "};" line.

Cheers, Ian W.



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