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Re: Gitattributes file is not respected when switching between branches

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Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
Sep 18, 2016, 19:31 UTC
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On 16.09.16 08:51, Виталий Ищенко wrote:
> Sorry for delay.
> 
No problem about the delay.
(And please no top-posting)
If you say
> ".gitattributes" indeed is not present in "master", but this is intentionally
then nobody has (to my knowledge) thought about this situation/workflow yet.

The short version: Git is designed to have the same .gitattributes in different branches. At least not in the long run.

A typical use case is to create a repo, adjust the .gitattributes and keep this in all branches.
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