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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2023-06-06T16:50:16Z"
+ content="""
+You can already configure annex.addunlocked with `git-annex config`.
+
+Adding gitattributes for configs is problimatic because querying
+for them is not fast. They have to be queried for every file. Also the
+gitattributes format is not well suited to complex expressions since the
+value cannot contain spaces.
+
+annex.addunlocked can already be set to a [[git-annex-matching-expression]]
+and this allows configuring it differently for different filenames, etc.
+
+The only benefit to supporting it in gitattributes would be to configure it
+differently in different branches of the repository. 
+
+There was a todo already suggesting this,
+[[annex.addunlocked_in_gitattributes]] and I decided to close it.
+"""]]