title: Perforce: Keeping Perforce from altering text-file format
body: <p>Is there a way to tell Perforce to leave text files alone without setting the file-type as binary?  Or barring that, is there a way to tell the Perforce client to diff binaries?  Binary usually isn't desirable, because I lose the ability to diff.  </p>
  
  <p>To clarify: If I edit and make changes to a *.txt file on my window client, newlines will have CR+LF as per the DOS format.  But if I P4 sync on a Unix client, it will have LF only. I need Perforce to keep the format as-is, regardless of where the Perforce client lives.</p>
  
  <p>That said, I do have a work-around:  Set file-type as binary; and/or create a branch with text files set as "text", and integrate periodically back into the mainline where text files are set as "binary".  But this is an overly-complicated work-around for what should be a very simple problem.</p>
  
  <p>Finally, I'm on <strong>Perforce</strong> Windows client 2006.2.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>