Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes

Am 10/10/2012 21:44, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

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Is there already an established definition which the "correct"
.gitattributes are?

No, and it is deliberately kept vague while waiting for us to come
up with a clear definition of what is "correct".

...

Very often, people
retroactively define attributes to correct earlier mistakes.

Absolutely. I have Windows resource files that are Shift-JIS encoded
checked in long ago, and I want to retoactively declare them with
"encoding=Shift-JIS" because I prefer to see Japanese script in gitk
rather than gibberish.

-- Hannes