From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:55:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Clean up stale .gitignore and .gitattribute patterns
Message-ID: <xmqqo7l25ibw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuPO63Hi8mfA+MkAGES-gs0eNCDPG2FcPZT=YsnVzKd30A@mail.gmail.com>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> 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"?