From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:17:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory
Message-ID: <4E8CBB4C.4000408@svario.it>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcs370d1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 05/10/2011 20:35, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> What if I do not want to say things about the "content" of the
>> directory but about the directory itself? This is exactly my case.
>
> Oh, that is totally different. We do not store directories, and they do
> not have attributes, period.

While that is true (yet many beg git to natively support empty dirs…), 
`.gitignore` does deal with directories. As you quoted,

 > If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the purpose
 > of the following description, but it would only find a match with
 > a directory. In other words, foo/ will match a directory foo and
 > paths underneath it

Isn't applying the same logic to `.gitattributes` be the most 
straightforward solution? Also code-wise, I suppose.

Bye,

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>