From: Aalex Gabi <aalexgabi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:02:09 GMT
Subject: Git attributes are read from head branch instead of given branch when using git archive
Message-ID: <CABRdPwCA6UR0kkZ2T8W4OYZ36oBwF9hw+SpJHXDE15CHyFiA8A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

git archive --remote="URL" branchname > branchname.tar.gz is not
reading .gitattributes file from the given branch but from HEAD. More
specifically export-ignore lines in the target branch are ignored.

The remote is using git protocol and it's served by Gitlab. I use git
version 2.11.0.

Is this a git issue? In that case is this a bug or a known limitation?

Best regards,
Aalex Gabi