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From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: System wide gitattributes
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:46:04 +0530
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2009/9/16 David F=F6rster <david.foerster@andrena.de>:
> Hi there,
>
> from the documentation I understand that things like external diff to=
ols can
> be set up in a gitattributes file per repository (or subfolder).
>
> Why is there no support for a ~/.gitattributes file? This would be ve=
ry
> handy, for example to always get a textual diff of OpenDocument files=
=2E
>

They are there; see

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html#FILES