Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes: >> At Karl's request, I reluctantly relaxed the server-side hook that >> prohibits pushing changes containing added trailing blanks by doing >> this in savannah's cvs "vserver": >> >> echo build-aux/texinfo.tex -whitespace > >> /srv/git/gnulib.git/info/attributes > > Wouldn't it be better to store this in gnulib.git/.gitattributes, so that > everyone can get this exception rather than just savannah?
It's required only to get past a server-side commit hook that is specific to savannah, so technically no one else should need it. Also, I would like to avoid adding any more exceptions like that, so preferred rather not make it too easy. Is there some scenario in which using .gitattributes would be better?
