Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkout: fix attribute handling in checkout all

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