# No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request) 4 messages from 2010-04-21 to 2010-04-26. Participants: Štěpán Němec, Matthieu Moy, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23552 ## Štěpán Němec, 2010-04-21 17:05 Subject: No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request) Message-ID: <87zl0wd9ce.fsf@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87zl0wd9ce.fsf%40gmail.com ``` 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. My use case: I wanted to specify something like -F "^(" to git diff for lisp files. But well, git diff has no -F option! So shruggar from #git pointed me to gitattributes. OK, that's great and works, but now I have to put .gitattributes or info/attributes to all repos with lisp files in them? That rather sucks, if you ask me. So I would like to ask if there is a way, and if not, if it could be considered a useful feature addition. Thanks, Štěpán ``` ## Štěpán Němec, 2010-04-26 13:44 Subject: Re: No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request) Message-ID: <87och6ib0r.fsf@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87och6ib0r.fsf%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: <87zl0wd9ce.fsf@gmail.com> ``` Štěpán Němec writes: > 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. > > My use case: > > I wanted to specify something like -F "^(" to git diff for lisp files. > But well, git diff has no -F option! So shruggar from #git pointed me to > gitattributes. OK, that's great and works, but now I have to put > .gitattributes or info/attributes to all repos with lisp files in them? > That rather sucks, if you ask me. > > So I would like to ask if there is a way, and if not, if it could be > considered a useful feature addition. > > Thanks, > > Štěpán PING ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2010-04-26 13:48 Subject: Re: No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqoch6fhoz.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <87och6ib0r.fsf@gmail.com> ``` Štěpán Němec writes: >> 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). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2010-04-26 14:48 Subject: Re: No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request) Message-ID: <4BD5A7D5.3060203@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BD5A7D5.3060203%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 26.04.2010 15:48: > Štěpán Němec writes: > >>> 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). I leave it up to you to do the (re)search, but there's some preexisting patches and discussion around this topic. The upshot is that currently: SYSTEM | GLOBAL | VERSIONED | LOCAL $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig | $(HOME)/.gitconfig | N/A | $(GIT_DIR)/config N/A | N/A | .gitattributes (rec.) | $GIT_DIR/info/attributes N/A | N/A | .gitignore (rec.) | $GIT_DIR/info/exclude There's also GIT_CONFIG overriding the defaults, and core.exludesfiles (yes, with s!); and of course command line parameters. There's been requests for versioned config, for multiple sources of system config (think config.d/*), for global and system versions of attributes and exclude/ignore, for saner naming of exclude(s) vs. ignore, and, finally, for stopping all this madness, or rather: putting all of it in a subdir, aptly named gitconfig... no-no, no-go... or following the XDG conventions, or... So, you see: You may suggest something simple like core.attributesfile. I have a prediction how that goes. But now, right after 1.7.1, it might be a good time to really settle this in a future-proof yet backwards-compatible way. Michael ```