Using Git with VB6

Question

Our company has a large codebase in VB6, and we currently use VSS which, for all that we hate about it, at least integrates into the VB6 IDE.

My own team, which is u

Answer 1

I found this solution to work in our situation. It adds a bit more to the previous answers and solved all of our MANY issues getting our project to work with git.

.gitattributes

# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
* text eol=auto
*.bas text eol=crlf
*.frm text eol=crlf
*.log text eol=crlf
*.vbp text eol=crlf
*.cls text eol=crlf
*.vbw text eol=crlf
*.dsr text eol=crlf
*.ini text eol=crlf
*.res binary
*.RES binary
*.frx binary
*.exe binary
*.dll binary
*.ico binary
*.gif binary
*.ocx binary
*.tlb binary
*.ocx.bin binary
*.ism binary
*.bin binary
*.aps binary
*.ncb binary
*.exe.compat binary
*.ocx.compat binary

.gitignore

.DS_Store
.Trashes
*.vbw
*.csi
*.exp
*.lib
*.lvw
*.dca
*.scc
*.tmp