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Re: Clean up stale .gitignore and .gitattribute patterns

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jun 26, 2023, 15:55 UTC
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
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> Thanks Peff for the suggestion. I ended up scripting something via
> JGit [1], as we're anyway using it as part of our Gradle build system.
>
> PS: As a future idea, it might be good if "git mv" gives a hint about
> updating .gitattributes if files matching .gitattributes pattern are
> moved.

Interesting. "git mv hello.jpg hello.jpeg" would suggest updating a "*.jpg <list of attribute definitions>" line in the .gitattributes to begin with "*.jpeg"?

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