From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:33:41 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/attributes not cloned
Message-ID: <20080327033341.GB5417@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <47EB0FAE.5000102@rea-group.com>

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:08:30PM +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:

> If one creates a .git/info/attributes file in a Git repo, it will not be  
> present in cloned repos.
> I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it /seems/ wrong behaviour to  
> me, and reading from the manual pages.

It is not a bug. The .gitattributes file in your working directory _is_
cloned, and that is the right place to put things that you want to be
revision-controlled and used in every repo. The .git/info/attributes
file is for attributes that are purely local to that repo. This is
similar to the split between .git/info/exclude and .gitignore.

Can you point out which part of the manual gave the wrong impression (or
better yet, submit a patch making it more clear)?

-Peff