From: Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:10:17 GMT
Subject: Re: textconv not used for diff
Message-ID: <AANLkTik8XzRA5i3y265OdYC3_fBPxiT1KPb7K003JRDj@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr5g3f42b.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> writes:
>> After trying for a couple hours to get textconv to work according to
>> <https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Textconv> and other pages, I've
>> given up. I've tried changing .odt, .ott and .ods files, but git-diff
>> never outputs the text diff:
>>
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.7.0.4
>> $ cat ~/.gitattributes
>
> .gitattributes file should be in the working tree, not in your $HOME.
>
> The development version of Git has a core.attributesfile variable that
> would allow you to have a user-wide ~/.gitattributes, but this isn't
> released yet.

Thank you very much! To the point and with bonus info for later. Works a charm.

-- 
Victor Engmark