gitattributes: allow diff of test data #470
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This allows
git diff
to show changes to text files intests/data
.Previously, we treated all test files as
binary
(equivalent to-text -diff
). This resulted in useless diffs like:However,
-text
is sufficient to prevent line endings from being changed (necessary for stable cross-platform checksums). Now, all text files diff properly. I also added back line ending changes todata.py
since we never need to checksum that.