Images corrupt after git push

Question

I added some .png images to my git repo and then pushed them to my remote repository. I noticed that the images are in the remote repository, but they are broken.

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Answer 1

I had this issue too - here's a generic .gitattributes that looks generally safe for php web repos that worked for me: https://github.com/Danimoth/gitattributes/blob/master/Web.gitattributes

running git check-attr --all -- path/to/png before and after adding the new gitattributes showed that the image file was originally treated as a text file, and now it's binary (note I had to commit/push the .gitattributes file for it to take effect on remote)

In case the link goes dead:

# These settings are for any web project

# Handle line endings automatically for files detected as text
# and leave all files detected as binary untouched.
# * text=auto
# NOTE - originally I had the above line un-commented.  it caused me a lot of grief related to line endings because I was dealing with WordPress plugins and the website changing line endings out if a user modified a plugin through the web interface.  commenting this line out seems to have alleviated the git chaos where simply switching to a branch caused it to believe 500 files were modified.

#
# The above will handle all files NOT found below
#

#
## These files are text and should be normalized (Convert crlf => lf)
#

# source code
*.php text
*.css text
*.sass text
*.scss text
*.less text
*.styl text
*.js text
*.coffee text
*.json text
*.htm text
*.html text
*.xml text
*.svg text
*.txt text
*.ini text
*.inc text
*.pl text
*.rb text
*.py text
*.scm text
*.sql text
*.sh text
*.bat text

# templates
*.ejs text
*.hbt text
*.jade text
*.haml text
*.hbs text
*.dot text
*.tmpl text
*.phtml text

# server config
.htaccess text

# git config
.gitattributes text
.gitignore text
.gitconfig text

# code analysis config
.jshintrc text
.jscsrc text
.jshintignore text
.csslintrc text

# misc config
*.yaml text
*.yml text
.editorconfig text

# build config
*.npmignore text
*.bowerrc text

# Heroku
Procfile text
.slugignore text

# Documentation
*.md text
LICENSE text
AUTHORS text


#
## These files are binary and should be left untouched
#

# (binary is a macro for -text -diff)
*.png binary
*.jpg binary
*.jpeg binary
*.gif binary
*.ico binary
*.mov binary
*.mp4 binary
*.mp3 binary
*.flv binary
*.fla binary
*.swf binary
*.gz binary
*.zip binary
*.7z binary
*.ttf binary
*.eot binary
*.woff binary
*.pyc binary
*.pdf binary