Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> As you can see, core.bigfilethreshold is a pretty blunt instrument. It
> might be nice if .gitattributes understood other types of patterns
> besides filenames, so you could do something like:
>
>   echo '[size > 500MB] delta -diff' >.gitattributes
>
> or something like that. I don't think it's come up enough for anybody to
> care too much about it or work on it.

But attributes is about paths, at which a blob may or may not exist,
so it is a bad fit to add conditionals that are based on sizes and
types.

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