From: Henrik Grubbström <grubba@roxen.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:23:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Attr: Allow macros to override earlier attributes.
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.1004022118300.26349@shipon.roxen.com>
In-Reply-To: <f02815e3761a8050aa76f46cd19288e72da14206.1270216006.git.grubba@grubba.org>

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) wrote:

> Macros need to be able to override earlier attribute values.
> Consider a .gitattributes file with the following content:
>
> [attr]mybinary	binary -ident
> *		ident
> foo.bin		mybinary
>
> Without this patch foo.bin will still have the ident attribute set.

On closer thought, the approach taken by this patch wasn't a good idea,
since it doesn't handle the case:

bar.bin		mybinary ident

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Henrik Grubbström					grubba@roxen.com
Roxen Internet Software AB