Added a comment: different handling of dotfiles

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
subject="different handling of dotfiles"
date="2019-10-21T02:51:16Z"
content="""
Related: [[bugs/dotfiles_handled_differently]]
For most files, whether they get annexed is controlled by `annex.largefiles`. But dotfiles are configured to never be annexed regardless of `annex.largefiles`. This special-casing (in `.git/info/attributes`) is unexpected and confusing. It is probably a consequence of making `git add` annex files by default, but it's better to change that default than to have the special case. Also, `git-annex-add` seems to ignore the dotfiles, as in the bug report above.
I thought of reverting to an earlier version of git-annex until these and other issues can get worked out, but realized I can't, since the repos got irreversibly auto-upgraded to v7...
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