Re: [PATCH 03/34] doc: remove unneeded .gitattributes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2025, 21:55 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqjz95vkwi.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250303204443.360595-4-tmz@pobox.com>

Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:

> The top-level .gitattributes file contains entries for the Documentation
> tree.  Documentation/.gitattributes has not been touched since it was
> added in 14f9e128d3 (Define the project whitespace policy, 2008-02-10).

I'd explain this change a bit differently, but the end result I agree with. These days we no longer have any .txt file under the Documentation/ hierarchy, so no matter what the other gitattributes files at the upper level(s) do, this attribute definition for .txt file would not do anything, so it makes perfect sense to lose it.

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> Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/.gitattributes | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/.gitattributes
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/.gitattributes b/Documentation/.gitattributes
> deleted file mode 100644
> index ddb030137d..0000000000
> --- a/Documentation/.gitattributes
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1 +0,0 @@
> -*.txt whitespace