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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 02:45:54 -0400
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Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:44:36AM -0400, John wrote:

> I agree, no defaults are better than arbitrary defaults.  So why is
> the default "text"?

Because git was designed as a source control system?

-Peff