Re: Request: a way to ignore .gitattributes

[off-list ref] writes:

These may seem a little off the wall, but:
1. Could you use a clean/smudge approach to mess with your bad
.gitattributes file before it gets put down on disk? I realize that
registering the filter might not be possible given that you need to muck
with .gitattributes to do it, but if you have any control at all and can get
the filter in, perhaps that might be a way to clean up the bad
.gitattributes file.
2. What about a post-checkout hook that fixes .gitattributes and then does
an update-index --assume-unchanged on it. This is under the assumption that
you will never change .gitattributes in your clone.

Ahh, that's cleverer than what I had initially as a knee-jerk
reaction, which was "fix the tool that emits '$path -text' for each
and every path in the repository and instead use '* -text' perhaps?".