[SciPy-Dev] ANN: SciPy 0.10.0 beta 2

[Pauli Virtanen]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:23:12 +0200, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> We need to put "scipy/io/matlab/tests/data/japanese_utf8.txt binary" in
>> the .gitattributes file.
>>
> I can't find any documentation for the above. Are you sure that works?
> The standard way is "scipy/io/matlab/tests/data/japanese_utf8.txt -crlf
> -diff". Let's do that for all Cython-generated files as well.

My gitattributes man page (Git 1.7.4.1) says that "binary" is a builtin
macro attribute that expands to "-diff -text". The man page also says that
"crlf" attribute is obsolete, and "-crlf" now expands to "-text".

I guess this part of Git changed somewhat not so long time ago.

	Pauli