From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:35:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory
Message-ID: <7vvcs370d1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E8C9A35.5030504@svario.it>

Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> writes:

> 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.