In Git, there's a cat-file command, which allows you to get a file at a particular point in time. These files aren't always in plain text, so it's important to keep each byte the same to prevent corruption. Unfortunately, since \r\n and \r are both replaced with just \n this does not preserve the bytes, and makes it impossible to recover back to the file's original state. I ask that you add a named argument to GitRepository->execute which would allow skipping the step that splits by newlines and carriage returns.