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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc:     "'Sean MacLennan'" <seanm@seanm.ca>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request: a way to ignore .gitattributes
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<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

> These may seem a little off the wall, but:
> 1. Could you use a clean/smudge approach to mess with your bad
> .gitattributes file before it gets put down on disk? I realize that
> registering the filter might not be possible given that you need to muck
> with .gitattributes to do it, but if you have any control at all and can get
> the filter in, perhaps that might be a way to clean up the bad
> .gitattributes file.
> 2. What about a post-checkout hook that fixes .gitattributes and then does
> an update-index --assume-unchanged on it. This is under the assumption that
> you will never change .gitattributes in your clone.

Ahh, that's cleverer than what I had initially as a knee-jerk
reaction, which was "fix the tool that emits '$path -text' for each
and every path in the repository and instead use '* -text' perhaps?".