From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:57 GMT
Subject: Re: System wide gitattributes
Message-ID: <20090924070857.GA461@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AB0D0EB.5080105@andrena.de>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:50:03PM +0200, David Förster wrote:

> from the documentation I understand that things like external diff
> tools can be set up in a gitattributes file per repository (or
> subfolder).
> 
> Why is there no support for a ~/.gitattributes file? This would be
> very handy, for example to always get a textual diff of OpenDocument
> files.

I think it is simply that nobody found it particularly useful until now,
and so nobody implemented it. Gitattributes tend to be somewhat tied to
the project files themselves. However, I can certainly see the use of
something like "*.doc diff=word" in your ~/.gitattributes.

So I think it is a sound concept; it just needs somebody to volunteer to
write it.

-Peff