Re: Honoring a checked out gitattributes file

Ok, it took a bit longer than I thought to get around to this, but I
finally have a patch for the problem. I am not so familiar with the
Git source code, so I apologize if I do something incredibly stupid.

Hopefully the commit message should explain what I do, but please ask
questions if it's not clear. I'm sure there's room for improvements.

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Kristian