From: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:50:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add global and system-wide gitattributes
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=q-tdtaWp8O3AHyvynL97LJuy7e9HUFwfkmX3O@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.1008111059281.1471@shipon.roxen.com>

Hi,

>> Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide in ~/.giattributes
>
>                                                               ^^
> I assume you mean "~/.gitattributes" (ie missing a 't').

Yeah.

> I'm not sure if the above priority order is the most desireable order, since
> the user may want to set a default attribute, and have it to be overridden
> by the .gitattributes in the repositories.

I wasn't sure either. I'm assuming info/gitattributes was made with
higher priority, so that that users could override .gitattributes
without polluting their repository, so I made the new ones behave the
same way. But now that I think of it, you probably want to do that
only for a specific repository, and have defaults for all repositories
that could be overriden by local .gitattributes. I'm going to rewrite
it this way.

Petr Onderka