From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:46:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Quick description of possible gitattributes system
Message-ID: <7vps7smevd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vejo8o69o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> I am in favor of also using $GIT_DIR/config format even for the
> in-tree .gitattributes files.

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".