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Please Add .gitattributes To Your Git Repository (dev.to)
submitted 11 months ago by lysdexic@programming.dev to c/git@programming.dev
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[–] muhanga@programming.dev -2 points 11 months ago

If you use a programming language which behaviour depends on the symbols that you hiding 90% of the time (I am talking about line ends and whitespace types) you will have a bad time. No amount of gitattributing or autocrlf magic will save you. You will suffer and you will get a phantom bugs if your editor and diff viewer will not show you "whitespace" changes.

And at the same time any programming language that will break due to whitespace should be chastised and laugh upon. Whitespace type should never be significant modifier for behaviour.

Also YAML can fuck off right into the sun.