On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:50:03PM +0200, David Förster wrote: > from the documentation I understand that things like external diff > tools can be set up in a gitattributes file per repository (or > subfolder). > > Why is there no support for a ~/.gitattributes file? This would be > very handy, for example to always get a textual diff of OpenDocument > files. I think it is simply that nobody found it particularly useful until now, and so nobody implemented it. Gitattributes tend to be somewhat tied to the project files themselves. However, I can certainly see the use of something like "*.doc diff=word" in your ~/.gitattributes. So I think it is a sound concept; it just needs somebody to volunteer to write it. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html