This is a good example of what understanding your tools can give you. Answer is new or novel approaches to the old problems. Ability to create a patch from any diff is really really usefull. If you have wip changes, but don’t want to commit it to, then creating a patch is a quite easy way to go.

If you use a programming language which behaviour depends on the symbols that you hiding 90% of the time (I am talking about line ends and whitespace types) you will have a bad time. No amount of gitattributing or autocrlf magic will save you. You will suffer and you will get a phantom bugs if your editor and diff viewer will not show you “whitespace” changes.

And at the same time any programming language that will break due to whitespace should be chastised and laugh upon. Whitespace type should never be significant modifier for behaviour.

Also YAML can fuck off right into the sun.