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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Clean up stale .gitignore and .gitattribute patterns
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks Peff for the suggestion. I ended up scripting something via
> JGit [1], as we're anyway using it as part of our Gradle build system.
>
> PS: As a future idea, it might be good if "git mv" gives a hint about
> updating .gitattributes if files matching .gitattributes pattern are
> moved.

Interesting.  "git mv hello.jpg hello.jpeg" would suggest updating
a "*.jpg <list of attribute definitions>" line in the .gitattributes
to begin with "*.jpeg"?