RE: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration - Avoiding the chicken and egg

2018-05-12 Thread Randall S. Becker
On May 11, 2018 3:26 PM, I wrote: > On May 10, 2018 10:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > "Randall S. Becker" writes: > > > > > What if we create a ../.gitconfig like ../.gitattributes, that is > > > loaded before .git/config? > > > > You should not forget one of the two reasons why clean/smudge/dif

RE: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

2018-05-11 Thread Randall S. Becker
On May 10, 2018 10:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Randall S. Becker" writes: > > > What if we create a ../.gitconfig like ../.gitattributes, that is > > loaded before .git/config? > > You should not forget one of the two reasons why clean/smudge/diff etc. > drivers must be given with a step o

Re: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

2018-05-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Randall S. Becker" writes: > What if we create a ../.gitconfig like ../.gitattributes, that is loaded > before .git/config? You should not forget one of the two reasons why clean/smudge/diff etc. drivers must be given with a step of redirection, split between attributes and config. "This path

RE: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

2018-05-10 Thread Randall S. Becker
On May 9, 2018 6:39 PM, Bryan Turner wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:09 PM Randall S. Becker > > wrote: > > > The question: what is the best practice for versioning the parts of > > clean/smudge filters that are in .git/config given that only some > > users in my environment will be cloning t

RE: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

2018-05-09 Thread Randall S. Becker
On May 9, 2018 6:39 PM, Bryan Turner wrote > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:09 PM Randall S. Becker > > wrote: > > > The question: what is the best practice for versioning the parts of > > clean/smudge filters that are in .git/config given that only some > > users in my environment will be cloning t

Re: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

2018-05-09 Thread Bryan Turner
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:09 PM Randall S. Becker wrote: > The question: what is the best practice for versioning the parts of > clean/smudge filters that are in .git/config given that only some users in > my environment will be cloning the repository in question and that I really > can't put the

[Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

2018-05-09 Thread Randall S. Becker
Hi Git Team, I'm trying to work out some best practices for managing clean/smudge filters and hit a bump. The situation is that I have an environment where the possible clean/smudge filter configuration can change over time and needs to be versioned with the product being managed in a git reposito