From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer" Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:35:46 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr62rcee5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1232904657-31831-1-git-send-email-keith@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Keith Cascio X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 25 21:37:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRBjO-0001G3-FT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:37:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751408AbZAYUfy (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:35:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751401AbZAYUfy (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:35:54 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:35333 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751373AbZAYUfy (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:35:54 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B835F1D027; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:35:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 381E11D470; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:35:48 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C2E724BA-EB1F-11DD-8AE5-BE78113D384A-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Keith Cascio writes: > Future work: Extend the gitattributes mechanism so it supports > all [diff] config variables, including e.g. diff.mnemonicprefix > and diff.primer. I am puzzled. The gitattributes mechanism is about per-path settings, but I do not think a mnemonicprefix that is per-path makes much sense.