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Re: "man gitattributes" doesn't explain comma-separated attribute values

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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Mar 16, 2019, 21:58 UTC
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Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
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>   as a working example, i looked at the top-level .gitattributes file
> in the git source code itself, which opens with:
> 
>   * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
>   *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
>   *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
>   ... snip ...
> 
> first observation is that i see nothing in the man page that explains
> the notion of a comma-separated list of attribute values.

This comma-separated list is not a property of attributes in general, but a property of the whitespace attribute in particular. See core.whitespace in git-config(1) and "Checking whitespace errors" in gitattributes(5).

-- Hannes
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