I want to know whether there is a plan to add this feature, or GIT doesn't require it at all. Properties like encoding (path name, file content), eol-style, mime-type are useful for editing. BTW: I don't mean Subversion is better that GIT:-) - 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