From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:20:46 GMT
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
Message-ID: <7vwsm06cdd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4826CE0B.8080109@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> Another idea: would it make sense to have an attribute for that instead
> (or in addition to the command line parameter)?  I.e. files marked
> export-ignore would not end up in the archive.  I suspect the set of
> files to ignore doesn't change from archive to archive one creates.

That sounds extremely sensible.

Should/does git-archive read .gitattributes from the tree being exported?