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Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2011, 18:35 UTC
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Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> writes:
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> On 05/10/2011 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> In fact the support for gitattributes using patterns involving "." was
>>> pretty spotty in v1.7.6 too.  For example,
>>
>> The attribute patterns (or exclude patterns for that matter) were never
>> designed to name "the current directory". The way to name "everything *in*
>> this directory" has always been to say "*" (the "* text=auto" example in
>> the documentation says it shows how to set the attribute "for all
>> files"). Admittedly the pattern may miss ".*" files.
>
> 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.

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  1. Gioele BarabucciOct 4, 2011
  2. Michael HaggertyOct 5, 2011
  3. Gioele BarabucciOct 5, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2011
  5. Gioele BarabucciOct 5, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2011
  7. Gioele BarabucciOct 5, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2011
  9. Michael HaggertyOct 12, 2011
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2011
  11. Gioele BarabucciOct 13, 2011
  12. Johannes SixtOct 13, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2011

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