Feature Request: .gitattributes generator

[suft]

Check list

• I have read through the README
• I have the latest version of forgit
• I have searched through the existing issues

Environment info

• OS
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • Others:
• Shell
  • bash
  • zsh
  • fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

• Add a .gitattributes generator (gat)
  • Similar to the .gitignore generator (gi)
• Could use https://github.com/gitattributes/gitattributes as a source of the different .gitattributes types

[sandr01d]

I think this would be a nice improvement. Is this something you would like to implement yourself?

[cjappl]

Can you give a high level overview of what this file is, and what it is used for?

[sandr01d]

Can you give a high level overview of what this file is, and what it is used for?

.gitattributes is used to tell git how to treat files matching a pattern. One of the most widely spread use cases is telling git whether a file type should be treated as binary or text file. This is especially useful when using git lfs. You can also use this for things like defining the line ending based on file type. For more details, see this.

[cjappl]

Thanks @sandr01d !

[suft]

I think this would be a nice improvement. Is this something you would like to implement yourself?

@sandr01d You could give it a try. If not I could try implementing it.