Uploading static executable to GIT project makes the file corrupted

Question

I have a git project that has a number of python, js, etc files in it. One of the files is a compiled C program ('program.static') that runs fine in my project.

However, when I commit that file to git (its rather small, like 12 MB) and then try to pull it down to a new machine (or even the same machine after wiping that local copy of the git project) the file no longer works as an executable.

On OSX, if I try to run the static file, (eg ./program.static ) it will just immediately kill the process. If I copy/paste a local copy of program.static to the directory, it works fine.

How do you protect static files like this during the git commit/pull process?

Answer 1

Changing the.attributes to include the.static file format correctly preserves functionality of the file