From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:33:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-archive documentation: .gitattributes must be committed
Message-ID: <7vocjw998t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vgsao21.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> By the way, if you commit the attributes file, then commit the removal of
> that attributes file, would that removed attributes file take effect when
> you archive HEAD^ (which still had the attribues file)?  That's how I read
> what the added description claims, but I somehow suspect that is not what
> actually happens.

Scratch this part, please.  You do read the tree into the index to make
it happen.