Re: Magit reports binary files that don't exist

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

>> I've just read your message on the magit ml. I manage thousands of .el
>> files with magit/git (the emacs repo, for instance) and never observed
>> that message.
>
> Its relatively new for me too, and I'm managing hundreds of .el files too
> for quite some time now. 

Just for the record, on the magit mailing list I was pointed to NULL
chars as possible culprits for this behaviour, and in fact the affected
.el files contain regexps with this construct borrowed from Org-mode
sources:

,----
| "[^^@]+" 
`----

where ^@ is actually the NULL char entered with C-q. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten