line, but now annex.largefiles has to be configured for it to smudge
anything.
-So, this could be dealt with in annex.largefiles. Both "anything" and
-"include=*" currently match dotfiles. It's kind of weird really that "*"
-matches dotfiles; it does not in the shell. If "*" did not match dotfiles
-(and "anything" is just an alias for "include=*"), it would be fairly safe
-to remove the ".* !filter" line by default. (If annex.largefiles has a
+So, this could be dealt with in annex.largefiles. Both `anything` and
+`include=*` currently match dotfiles. It's kind of weird really that `*`
+matches dotfiles; it does not in the shell. If *` did not match dotfiles
+(and `anything` is just an alias for `include=*`), it would be fairly safe
+to remove the `.* !filter` line by default. (If annex.largefiles has a
content-based setting, and a dotfile is large enough or the right mime type
or whatever, it's reasonable to default to smudging it.)
Then, you could set annex.largfiles to match the dotfiles you want,
-eg "include=* or include=.mydotfile". You could put the config in
+eg `include=* or include=.mydotfile`. You could put the config in
.gitattributes if you want to configure it globally.
This change to annex.largefiles would also let `git-annex add`
I like this because it unifies the behaviors of the two ways of adding,
and it reduces the complexity, rather than adding more.
-Removing the ".* !filter" line would need to be done as part of the v8
-upgrade, or a later upgrade.
+Removing the `.* !filter` line by default
+would need to be done as part of the v8 upgrade, or a later upgrade.
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