From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:34:40 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add global and system-wide gitattributes Message-ID: <7vy6bohde7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Matthieu Moy writes: > Štěpán Němec writes: > >> Petr Onderka writes: >> >>> Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide. This way, settings >>> for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's >>> repositories. >> >> [...] >> >> I really can't wait till this gets into Git and I'm certainly not the >> only one (thank you so much for working on it, Petr!). > > Same here ;-). > >> Any reason the patch still hasn't been applied? > > Usually, patches are applied if either > > 1) Junio has personal interest in it, or > > 2) Other people review the code and show interest for it. (1) is a bit more subtle than that. Even when I do not foresee using a proposed feature myself, if I can imagine somebody else would benefit, and more importantly if I can see a healthy rationale behind the change so that I can convince myself to be an advocate of that change to the end users, such a change will fall into category (1). That is why I often ask people to justify their changes better than they originally do. Isn't the patch in question on 'pu' to be tried by interested parties already?