From: M Lewis <picevio@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:45:44 GMT
Subject: Re: GitAttributes feature export-ignore works, but -export-ignore (with dash) should also work
Message-ID: <1e9e3272-f97b-9944-817f-778deec2e65c@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191121075837.GA30966@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff,

Thank you for taking this on. I tried your suggestion copied below. The 
'needed_a' (and _b) directories appear in the archive but unfortunately 
they are empty. We need the contents of the directories in the archive.

On 11/20/2019 11:58 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> Instead, if you write it like this:
>
>    /mostly_unuseful/**        export-ignore
>    /mostly_unuseful/needed_a -export-ignore
>    /mostly_unuseful/needed_b -export-ignore
>
> ... And given that there's already a
> solution using `**`, it might not be worth it.
>