From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:45:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat.
Message-ID: <7v7il0yrl3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071102174552.GE15595@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> The whitespace policy varies based on the project (and in some cases,
> based on the file within that project).  It shouldn't vary from user to
> user or repo to repo.  So the configuration variable mechanism seems a
> poor match.  Would it be possible to use something like gitattributes
> instead?  Then the whitespace policy would be associated with the
> project itself, would automatically be propagated on clone, etc.

The use of gitattributes certainly sounds like a good way to
go.  A project like git may say "HT indent for C sources, SP
only for Python parts".

Having said that, I've added a few tests and merged the result
to 'next' already.  We can improve it to use attributes instead
while on 'next'.

And the git-apply side needs a matching adjustment.