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

Sam Vilain [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup wrote:

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These files which store metadata would be stored in a way that is
"in another dimension" to the project files, despite being a part of
the history.  That means that all tools built to deal with regular
files and directories will not be able to merge the changes to the
attributes without special support.  I think this is broken.
    

That presumes that a good way to merge attributes is to use a text
file merge algorithm, complete with finding diff context lines in a
basically unchanged order.
  

Yes.  Is that not a reasonable assumption, in the absence of anything
more enlightened?

Is that a trick question?  My comment was exactly about not throwing
away the information ("This is not arbitrary text but talks about the
files in our tree.") that would make for more enlightened use.

-- 
David Kastrup