On Friday 2007 March 02 04:46, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thinking about this a bit more, I take this "syntax" part back. > One-line-per-record format is much nicer if we want to keep this > information in .gitattributes files in-tree, especially because That was my original thought. However, it occurred to me that we might have an implicit handler for .gitattributes that said [handler "attributesfile"] merge = builtin-attributes-merge So you don't necessarily have to keep it line based (although I suppose that is easier than writing a special merger). Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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