Hi, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > Could we drop reading the file [.gitattributes] in the work tree > completely? NACK. It is not good to hide things away from the working tree. It is much easier to just edit a file than to edit it and put it into the index. Ciao, Dscho - 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