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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] pathspec labels [WAS: submodule groups]
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Instead of putting everything in under the same attribute name
>> "label", make one attribute per label? Would this work?
>>
>> *.[ch] c-group code-group
>>
>> And the pathspec magic name can be simply "attr", any git attribute
>> can be used with it, e.g. :(attr:c-group)
>
> So you want to be able to query something like:
>
>     git ls-files ":(crlf=auto)"
>
> as well?

It would be more like

	git ls-files ":(attr:crlf=auto)"

It certainly sounds tempting, even though I do not want to keep what
this initial chunk of the series needs to do to the minimum.