From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:59:18 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore for large files?
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> While .gitattributes looks like a better place, it does not have
> "exclude" attribute equivalence to .gitignore. If I remember
> correctly, the way .gitignore and .gitattributes are implemented makes
> it very hard to turn .gitignore into part of .gitattributes
> implementation (gitattr checks .gitattributes of current dir first,
> then upward to parents, while .gitgnore follows the opposite
> direction).

While I do not think it is necessarily a good idea to invent yet another
way to exclude and add it to the attributes mechanism (unless we will be
dropping the support for gitignore, which is not the case), I do not know
why you think the direction of the scan matters.

A more important difference is that the attribute mechanism covers the
actual paths, not intermediate directories, unlike gitignore does.