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Re: textconv not used for diff

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Oct 6, 2010, 20:40 UTC
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Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> writes:
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> Hello,
>
> 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.

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