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Re: No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request)

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Apr 26, 2010, 13:48 UTC
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Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> it seems there is no global .gitattribute equivalent to .gitignore or
>> .gitconfig. Wouldn't it make much sense to have one? Failing that, there
>> really should be a way to specify some global diff options at least.

I'd like this feature too. My use-case is to have antiword and odt2txt as textconv filters for .doc and .odt files, which I always want to do. But probably the feature won't get implemented until one of us writes a patch ;-) (I may have time later, but not before a few days/weeks).

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  2. Štěpán NěmecApr 26, 2010
  3. Matthieu MoyApr 26, 2010
  4. Michael J GruberApr 26, 2010

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