From: Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 16:06:21 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Explain text/eol/binary .gitattributes
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Explain text/eol/binary .gitattributes
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diff --git a/pep-git.txt b/pep-git.txt
index 51701c9..bb1d77b 100644
--- a/pep-git.txt
+++ b/pep-git.txt
@@ -596,9 +596,23 @@ Advanced configuration
 Line endings
 ------------
 
-Git has builtin mechanisms to handle line endings.
+Git has builtin mechanisms to handle line endings between platforms
+with different EOL styles. To allow git to do CRLF conversion assign
+``text`` attribute to files using `.gitattributes
+<https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html>`_.
+For files that have to have specific line ending assign ``eol``
+attribute. For binary files the attribute is, naturally, ``binary``.
 
-TODO: describe crlf configuration and .gitattributes.
+For example::
+
+    $ cat .gitattributes
+    *.py text
+    *.txt text
+    *.png binary
+    /readme.txt eol=CRLF
+
+To check what attributes git uses for files use ``git check-attr``
+command.
 
 
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