Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.

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From: "Junio C Hamano" <redacted>
 >> 2. Storing metadata in regular source-controlled files feels wrong to

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me.

You are free to _feel_ whatever you want without thinking, but

I did quite a bit of thinking before posting it. Not sure what made you think otherwise.

 I think reading from
index as a fallback measure when work tree file is missing is a
very good compromise we came up recently.

Can you specify _exactly_ how it works now? And I'll show you a bunch of corner cases where it's broken.

- Dmitry