Am 10/10/2012 21:44, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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 -- 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