Re: [PATCH] Quick description of possible gitattributes system

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

Thinking about this a bit more, I take this "syntax" part back. One-line-per-record format is much nicer if we want to keep this information in .gitattributes files in-tree, especially because the changes to them _could_ conflict, and the pathattr mechanism needs to work with such a file left in the working tree as its input. I suspect the config parser would simply say "oops" and die given a malformed input resulting from conflict markers. It is easy to ignore <<< === >>> lines and we would get a sensible result.

Which automatically means that there will be no "continuation lines".