From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:16:04 GMT
Subject: Re: System wide gitattributes
Message-ID: <f46c52560909160516w1d888a23yedd1fafae515bfbe@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AB0D0EB.5080105@andrena.de>

2009/9/16 David Förster <david.foerster@andrena.de>:
> Hi there,
>
> from the documentation I understand that things like external diff tools can
> be set up in a gitattributes file per repository (or subfolder).
>
> Why is there no support for a ~/.gitattributes file? This would be very
> handy, for example to always get a textual diff of OpenDocument files.
>

They are there; see

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html#FILES