Re: Git Modifying DLL

[Jonathon Anderson <janderson@acesquality.com>]

I had not. I tested that and it worked. I assumed that git would
automatically treat dll files as binary. Thanks for the help!

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 1:13 PM Randall S. Becker
<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>
> On August 19, 2021 1:59 PM, Jonathon Anderson wrote:
> >
> >I'm having an issue with git modifying a DLL file and corrupting it.
> >When I download the original working file, it has a hash starting with 8FE400... I then commit the DLL and push it to our repo. When I
> >download the file from the repo, the DLL can't be loaded, and it has a hash starting with E004FB...
> >
> >Opening the DLL in a hex editor and using the compare feature, there's a single change to the file. In the original, the byte code starting
> >at 0x0074 is 2E 0D 0D 0A 24.
> >In the git file, the byte code starting at 0x0074 is 2E 0D 0A 24
> >
> >A single carriage return character (0x0D) has been removed, and the file size has changed from 260,608 bytes to 260,607 bytes.
> >
> >I ruled out the possibility that the repo server was doing anything to the file because I deleted the file in my local repository then ran "git
> >reset --hard HEAD" to restore the file, and the hash had once again changed to E004FB...
> >
> >OS: Windows 10.0.19043 pro
> >git: 2.32.0.windows.1
> >
> >I have no settings configured for git behavior handling line endings.
> >
> >The original DLL can be found here:
> >https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSWindowsUpdate/2.1.1.2
> >
> >Navigate to "Manual Download", download the nuget package and unzip it. The file is PSWindowsUpdate.dll
>
> Have you set up an entry for *.dll as binary in your .gitattributes file?
>
> -Randall
>