Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.

> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> These files which store metadata would be stored in a way that is
>>> "in another dimension" to the project files, despite being a part of
>>> the history.  That means that all tools built to deal with regular
>>> files and directories will not be able to merge the changes to the
>>> attributes without special support.  I think this is broken.
>>>     
>>
>> That presumes that a good way to merge attributes is to use a text
>> file merge algorithm, complete with finding diff context lines in a
>> basically unchanged order.
>>   
>
> Yes.  Is that not a reasonable assumption, in the absence of anything
> more enlightened?