Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 24.05.2010 03:16: > John <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Is there any reason why someone would NOT want the above >> ".gitattributes" defined by default? > > Other than that our originally intended target audience are people who use > git as a source code control system, not much. > and other than that many people use clean/smudge filters to make git happily and efficiently deltify compressed file formats (such as gz, bz2, zip) and still keep compressed checkouts... and other than that which you (plural) and I are not thinking of right now. Let the defaults be as they are (fit for source control in the proper sense), it's easy enough to change them for other use cases. Michael -- 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