From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:35:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <7vr62rcee5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1232904657-31831-1-git-send-email-keith@cs.ucla.edu>

Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Future work: Extend the gitattributes mechanism so it supports
> all [diff] config variables, including e.g. diff.mnemonicprefix
> and diff.primer.

I am puzzled.

The gitattributes mechanism is about per-path settings, but I do not think
a mnemonicprefix that is per-path makes much sense.