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Re: git-archive and unwanted .gitattributes

From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Jun 8, 2008, 15:24 UTC
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Jakub Narebski schrieb:
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> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Currently attr.c will read .gitattributes on disk no matter there is a
>> real worktree or not. 
> 
> Currently .gitattributes are read _only_ from the work tree.
> There isn't even infrastructure to read .gitattributes for commit
> (from a tree); git-check-attr, and I guess also internal git API,
> deals only with in-tree .gitattribute file.

Attributes are taken from three places (in order of increasing precedence): a table of built-in defaults, .gitattributes files in the work tree, and the file $GIT_DIR/info/attributes.

René
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Message 4 of 8 in “git-archive and unwanted .gitattributes”
  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJun 7, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiJun 7, 2008
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJun 7, 2008
  4. René ScharfeJun 8, 2008
  5. fix attribute handling in bare repositoriesRené Scharfe, Jun 8, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2008
  7. René ScharfeJun 8, 2008
  8. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJun 9, 2008

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