[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
 subject="maxextensionlength"
 date="2022-04-08T19:13:38Z"
 content="""
What about adding `annex.maxextensionlength` to `.gitattributes`, rather than to `git-annex-config`?  This would solve the use case of `.fastq.gz` files common in bioinformatics repos.
"""]]
