From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:11:02 GMT
Subject: Re: check-attr doesn't respect recursive definitions
Message-ID: <7vtxnogbft.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130402143130.GC23828@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yes, it is the expected behavior, though I cannot offhand think of
> anything that would break if we did apply it recursively.

Conceptually that breaks our brain.  "All files in doc/ directories
are text" and "doc/ directory is text" are two different things, no?