From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add basic infrastructure to assign attributes to paths Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:33:12 +0100 Message-ID: <200704131033.15751.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <7vr6qod4wh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 13 11:33:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HcI9n-0001sA-9s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:33:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753317AbXDMJdX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:33:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753367AbXDMJdX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:33:23 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:30767 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753317AbXDMJdW (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:33:22 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so508556uga for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:33:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=TBAO3LdQ3WDW0hkR5yEWPVZu+7wL+0QN/OELfROjIhqb7SbFuJAJTPDDynXf2av+1IzklGMrRAGA7y0gpyL/R0B2oJ5YgEVUAo2Uj2lDkfPR36xuoimb9bntGLrrSCG2HQq86dgAIJGBLbjVLTKPMzVSX7SszGWnZIvzH2IlZDo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=IwUY1oeJTpIF3T0x6j3G+EwzW0ToZuN23dNgMKbv4cEdsniaqduCsMV6t84nNPAHNmXaih8TXkYb1dvt68PxN+G20Eqb3377HhGDJFHVJU9CAWPPsWFms7LBB3RYwMwXJbsxEC7OFupw0uMOU/XDZPb8V+rWdJR1bcwq6s5/B+M= Received: by 10.67.74.7 with SMTP id b7mr1880976ugl.1176456800458; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.11.214? ( [84.201.153.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 27sm827272ugp.2007.04.13.02.33.18; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:33:19 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <7vr6qod4wh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday 2007, April 13, Junio C Hamano wrote: > parent directories. Lines in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file are > used as the lowest precedence default rules. Shouldn't this be the highest precedence? This would be important for those cases where I (as a fringe developer) disagree with an attribute that's been assigned in-tree. I don't want to force my will on every other developer, but would want my repository to work how I like it. For example: what if I /can/ read postscript :-) Incidentally - already I love gitattributes - nicely done Junio. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com