No way to have global diff settings? (global .gitattributes feature request)
Hello,
it seems there is no global .gitattribute equivalent to .gitignore or .gitconfig. Wouldn't it make much sense to have one? Failing that, there really should be a way to specify some global diff options at least.
My use case:
I wanted to specify something like -F "^(" to git diff for lisp files. But well, git diff has no -F option! So shruggar from #git pointed me to gitattributes. OK, that's great and works, but now I have to put .gitattributes or info/attributes to all repos with lisp files in them? That rather sucks, if you ask me.
So I would like to ask if there is a way, and if not, if it could be considered a useful feature addition.
Thanks,
Štěpán
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Hello,
it seems there is no global .gitattribute equivalent to .gitignore or .gitconfig. Wouldn't it make much sense to have one? Failing that, there really should be a way to specify some global diff options at least.
My use case:
I wanted to specify something like -F "^(" to git diff for lisp files. But well, git diff has no -F option! So shruggar from #git pointed me to gitattributes. OK, that's great and works, but now I have to put .gitattributes or info/attributes to all repos with lisp files in them? That rather sucks, if you ask me.
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So I would like to ask if there is a way, and if not, if it could be considered a useful feature addition.
Thanks,
Štěpán
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Hello,
it seems there is no global .gitattribute equivalent to .gitignore or .gitconfig. Wouldn't it make much sense to have one? Failing that, there really should be a way to specify some global diff options at least.
I'd like this feature too. My use-case is to have antiword and odt2txt as textconv filters for .doc and .odt files, which I always want to do. But probably the feature won't get implemented until one of us writes a patch ;-) (I may have time later, but not before a few days/weeks).
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Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 26.04.2010 15:48:
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Hello,
it seems there is no global .gitattribute equivalent to .gitignore or .gitconfig. Wouldn't it make much sense to have one? Failing that, there really should be a way to specify some global diff options at least.
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I'd like this feature too. My use-case is to have antiword and odt2txt as textconv filters for .doc and .odt files, which I always want to do. But probably the feature won't get implemented until one of us writes a patch ;-) (I may have time later, but not before a few days/weeks).
I leave it up to you to do the (re)search, but there's some preexisting patches and discussion around this topic. The upshot is that currently:
SYSTEM | GLOBAL | VERSIONED | LOCAL
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig | $(HOME)/.gitconfig | N/A |
$(GIT_DIR)/config
N/A | N/A | .gitattributes (rec.) |
$GIT_DIR/info/attributes
N/A | N/A | .gitignore (rec.) |
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude
There's also GIT_CONFIG overriding the defaults, and core.exludesfiles (yes, with s!); and of course command line parameters.
There's been requests for versioned config, for multiple sources of system config (think config.d/*), for global and system versions of attributes and exclude/ignore, for saner naming of exclude(s) vs. ignore, and, finally, for stopping all this madness, or rather: putting all of it in a subdir, aptly named gitconfig... no-no, no-go... or following the XDG conventions, or...
So, you see: You may suggest something simple like core.attributesfile. I have a prediction how that goes.
But now, right after 1.7.1, it might be a good time to really settle this in a future-proof yet backwards-compatible way.
Michael