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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Unresolved issues
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:39:48AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> In that case, .gitattributes (I mean a tracked one) would be wrong, wrong, 
> wrong.

Well, some of the uses of .gitattributes that I had propose was to
associate file types (and from the file types, a set of check-in,
check-out, diff, and pretty-print helper progams) for things like
OpenOffice files.

For those a tracked .gitattributes makes a lot of sense.

						- Ted