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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 9"""
+ date="2022-08-01T16:39:40Z"
+ content="""
+I also think that the thinking in this comment is worth considering:
+<https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/5383#issuecomment-770108778>
+
+Those are valid reasons to prefer to be able to set things like this
+in gitattributes rather than the global config. Those kinds of
+considerations are why the global config always has a local way to override
+it. Sometimes that is necessarily .git/config, not .gitattributes though.
+"""]]