Skip to main content

Being no GIT expert, I can only assume that GIT stores it data internally in ASCII. I’ve come to this conclusion because of the information in the .gitattributes file eg

* working-tree-encoding=ibm-1047 git-encoding=iso8859-1
.gitattributes working-tree-encoding=iso8859-1 git-encoding=iso8859-1

Through trial and error I’ve found that its the “GIT ADD” that uses the info in .gitattributes.

But what about “GIT CHECKOUT” ? If I delete .gitattributes, shouldn’t the file come back in ASCII ? As there is nothing telling GIT is should convert it to EBCDIC.

This doesn’t seem to be the case. But I don’t understand why not.

Regards,
Gary

Being no GIT expert, I can only assume that GIT stores it data internally in ASCII. I’ve come to this conclusion because of the information in the .gitattributes file eg

* working-tree-encoding=ibm-1047 git-encoding=iso8859-1
.gitattributes working-tree-encoding=iso8859-1 git-encoding=iso8859-1

Through trial and error I’ve found that its the “GIT ADD” that uses the info in .gitattributes.

But what about “GIT CHECKOUT” ? If I delete .gitattributes, shouldn’t the file come back in ASCII ? As there is nothing telling GIT is should convert it to EBCDIC.

This doesn’t seem to be the case. But I don’t understand why not.

Regards,
Gary

You have to remove the existing EBCDIC files after removing the .gitattributes files and then checkout again. It’s a slightly tricky operation. Here’s an example:

bash-4.3$ git clone git@github.com:zorts/hello_world.git
Cloning into 'hello_world'...
bash-4.3$ cd hello_world/
bash-4.3$ ls -alT
total 258
                    drwxr-xr-x   3 TSJLC    PDUSER      8192 Apr  3 08:12 .
                    drwxr-xr-x   3 TSJLC    PDUSER      8192 Apr  3 08:12 ..
                    drwxr-xr-x   8 TSJLC    PDUSER      8192 Apr  3 08:12 .git
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       316 Apr  3 08:12 .gitattributes
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER        10 Apr  3 08:12 .gitignore
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       642 Apr  3 08:12 Makefile
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER      1206 Apr  3 08:12 README.md
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       257 Apr  3 08:12 allocate.sh
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER        56 Apr  3 08:12 cleanup.sh
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       363 Apr  3 08:12 from_pds.jcl
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       370 Apr  3 08:12 from_pds.sh
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       176 Apr  3 08:12 hello.c
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER        91 Apr  3 08:12 listd.sh
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER      1110 Apr  3 08:12 to_pds.jcl
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       466 Apr  3 08:12 to_pds.sh
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       345 Apr  3 08:12 util.c
t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       138 Apr  3 08:12 util.h
bash-4.3$ git checkout -b noattr
Switched to a new branch 'noattr'
bash-4.3$ git rm .gitattributes
rm '.gitattributes'
bash-4.3$ git commit -m "remove the .gitattributes file"
[noattr 011db82] remove the .gitattributes file
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .gitattributes
bash-4.3$ rm *
bash-4.3$ git reset --hard HEAD
HEAD is now at 011db82 remove the .gitattributes file
bash-4.3$ git status
On branch noattr
nothing to commit, working directory clean
bash-4.3$ ls -alT
total 242
                    drwxr-xr-x   3 TSJLC    PDUSER      8192 Apr  3 08:13 .
                    drwxr-xr-x   3 TSJLC    PDUSER      8192 Apr  3 08:12 ..
                    drwxr-xr-x   8 TSJLC    PDUSER      8192 Apr  3 08:13 .git
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER        10 Apr  3 08:12 .gitignore
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       642 Apr  3 08:13 Makefile
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER      1206 Apr  3 08:13 README.md
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       257 Apr  3 08:13 allocate.sh
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER        56 Apr  3 08:13 cleanup.sh
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       363 Apr  3 08:13 from_pds.jcl
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       370 Apr  3 08:13 from_pds.sh
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       176 Apr  3 08:13 hello.c
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER        91 Apr  3 08:13 listd.sh
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER      1110 Apr  3 08:13 to_pds.jcl
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       466 Apr  3 08:13 to_pds.sh
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       345 Apr  3 08:13 util.c
t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 TSJLC    PDUSER       138 Apr  3 08:13 util.h
bash-4.3$
Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement