Re: git archive --worktree-attributes doesn't exclude .gitattributes anymore

From: Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>
Date: Jun 5, 2013, 07:20 UTC
Message-ID: <1370416848.58042.YahooMailNeo@web172702.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130605071055.GB14427@sigill.intra.peff.net>

OH, I see...

Just ubuntu is syncing from debian experimental... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git

Gianfranco

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> Da: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>A: Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it> 
>Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org> 
>Inviato: Mercoledì 5 Giugno 2013 9:10
>Oggetto: Re: git archive --worktree-attributes doesn't exclude .gitattributes anymore
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>On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 07:10:01AM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
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>> Just a question, is it possible to add a new test for handling this
>> kind of regressions?
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>Yes, I added one in commit efa5f825.
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>> And second, is it possible to have a patch for this problem? I'll be
>> glad to backport in debian, or to take care of updating the whole git
>> package (it is already in experimental BTW)
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>The fix took a fair bit of refactoring; it's in commits
>9db9eec..efa5f825. You can either cherry-pick that range, or just use
>"git diff" to generate a patch.
>
>However, for Debian, I don't see much point. Everything up through
>unstable does not have the bug (it is all 1.7.10.x or older), and the
>version in experimental is already 1.8.3. So as far as I can tell, no
>Debian release is currently shipping a buggy version.
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>-Peff
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