From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:53:42 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/attributes not cloned
Message-ID: <20080327045342.GC6426@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <47EB271F.1050307@rea-group.com>

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:48:31PM +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:

>> I vaguely recall some discussion of this in the past, so maybe it isn't
>> a good idea. But I would think changing git-archive to respect
>> .gitattributes might be worth doing (presumably the version of
>> .gitattributes from the tree that is being exported).
>
> Respecting the repo's .gitattributes would feel right. It seems unusual  
> (to me) that it bypasses $REMOTE/.gitattributes, but DOES check  
> $REMOTE/info/attributes.

I agree that it seems like a bug. You might search the list archives for
discussion around the export_subst attribute to see if it was discussed
then or if it is simply an omission.

-Peff