[PATCH/RFC] Introduce a built-in attribute "text"

"text is the opposite of "binary": It sets the attributes "crlf" and
"diff". It is needed because attribute macros can't be negated,
and some users may want to force git into treating certain files as
text which are not recognized by the internal logic.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <redacted>
---
This gives the user the chance to mess up completely (given an
"appropriate" setting of autocrlf), but I still think it's a good idea
to have that "-binary" built-in. attributes aren't used by noobs anyways.
In many cases, "diff" might be preferred over "text". Should I add a warning
to the doc?

Michael

 Documentation/gitattributes.txt |    4 +++-
 attr.c                          |    1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 2694559..2a00f8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt

@@ -510,7 +510,9 @@ the same time.  The system knows a built-in attribute macro, `binary`:
 which is equivalent to the above.  Note that the attribute macros can only
 be "Set" (see the above example that sets "binary" macro as if it were an
 ordinary attribute --- setting it in turn unsets "crlf" and "diff").
-
+Therefore, there is also a built-in attribute macro `text` which allows
+you to mark certain files as text which git does not recognize automatically.
+It is equivalent to setting `crlf diff`.
 
 DEFINING ATTRIBUTE MACROS
 -------------------------

diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index 17f6a4d..63e2837 100644
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c

@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ static void free_attr_elem(struct attr_stack *e)
 
 static const char *builtin_attr[] = {
 	"[attr]binary -diff -crlf",
+	"[attr]text diff crlf",
 	NULL,
 };
 

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