ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[Alexander Monakov]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> For example for .md files you can use
> 
> [diff "md"]
>         xfuncname = "^\\(define.*$"
> 
> in your local clone's .git/config
> 
> and
> 
> *.md  diff=md
> 
> in .gitattributes (somewhere in the source tree).

Not necessarily in the source tree: individual users can put that into their
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes or $HOME/.config/git/attributes.

Likewise the previous snippet can go into $HOME/.gitconfig rather than each
individual cloned tree.

(the point is, there's no need to split this quality-of-life change between the
repository and the user's setup - it can be done once by a user and will work
for all future checkouts)

Alexander