From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:57:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive ignores export-ignore
Message-ID: <7vocknhs70.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100121221312.GB5307@penguin.codegnome.org>

"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org> writes:

> Using git 1.6.4.2, the manual page prophesies that:
>
>     Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
>     added to archive files. See gitattributes(5) for details.
>
> However, various tools seem to be unhappy about this attribute. In
> particular, checkout complains about invalid attributes:
>
>     $ cat .gitattributes
>     *.py export-subst
>     *.html export-subst
>     juniperxml.cfg export-ignore
>
>     $ git checkout juniperxml.cfg
>     export-ignore is not a valid attribute name: .gitattributes:3

    $ cat .gitattributes
    * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
    *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space
    *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space
    COPYING export-ignore
    $ git checkout COPYING
    $ wc -l COPYING
    360 COPYING

There is something that is different in my failed attempt to reproduce it
from your problem description, but I cannot tell what it is.

Do you have some garbage character immediately after "e" in "-ignore"?