From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 21:58:06 GMT
Subject: Re: "man gitattributes" doesn't explain comma-separated attribute values
Message-ID: <408d82f6-e935-487a-6d0c-9ec4be5e8b6e@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1903160816410.10724@localhost.localdomain>

Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
>   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