From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:45:46 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug)
Message-ID: <20180320034545.GA12938@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tanto90.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 08:33:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > The best you can probably do is:
> >
> >   /.readme-docs/* diff=foo
> >
> > Since you have no diff.foo.* config, that will behave in the default way
> > (including respecting the usual "is it binary" checks). So a bit hacky,
> > but I think it would work as "ignore prior diff".
> 
> You can say
> 
> 	/.readme-docs/* !diff
> 
> I think.  Thre is a difference between setting it to "false"
> (i.e. Unset) and reverting it to unspecified state.
> 
> Isn't that what you want here?

Ah, yes, I totally forgot that existed. That's much better than the
hackery I proposed.

-Peff