From: Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:41:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901251239000.12651@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vr62rcee5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I am puzzled.
> 
> The gitattributes mechanism is about per-path settings, but I do not think a 
> mnemonicprefix that is per-path makes much sense.

That was just an example (perhaps poorly chosen).  What I meant to suggest is 
making gitattributes consistent with gitconfig WRT at least the [diff] section.  
But maybe that's not appropriate.  Thanks for the insight.