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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkout: fix attribute handling in checkout all
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:14:32 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> Could we drop reading the file [.gitattributes] in the work tree 
> completely?

NACK.

It is not good to hide things away from the working tree.  It is much 
easier to just edit a file than to edit it and put it into the index.

Ciao,
Dscho