Re: .gitattributes on branch behaves unexpected. Should it be more stateless?

Hi philip, thanks for your reply. You don't say which parts you believe should be identical, nor why. I expected my representation to be identical, nevertheless what path I have taken to come there. e.g. git clone -b branch git clone; git checkout branch should result in a binary-indentical

.gitattributes on branch behaves unexpected. Should it be more stateless?

Hi, I am asking myself if git and .gitattributes should be more stateless? i.e. whatever you have done before is irrelevant, when you reach status XYZ with your git repo, it is EXACTLY and BINARY the same all the time and everywhere. It took some time for me to figure out, that depending on HOW