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From: Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: textconv not used for diff
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 23:10:17 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> writes:
>> After trying for a couple hours to get textconv to work according to
>> <https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Textconv> and other pages, I've
>> given up. I've tried changing .odt, .ott and .ods files, but git-diff
>> never outputs the text diff:
>>
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.7.0.4
>> $ cat ~/.gitattributes
>
> .gitattributes file should be in the working tree, not in your $HOME.
>
> The development version of Git has a core.attributesfile variable that
> would allow you to have a user-wide ~/.gitattributes, but this isn't
> released yet.

Thank you very much! To the point and with bonus info for later. Works a charm.

-- 
Victor Engmark