Re: "man gitattributes" doesn't explain comma-separated attribute values
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > as a working example, i looked at the top-level .gitattributes file
> > in the git source code itself, which opens with:
> >
> > * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
> > *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
> > *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
> > ... snip ...
> >
> > first observation is that i see nothing in the man page that explains
> > the notion of a comma-separated list of attribute values.
>
> This comma-separated list is not a property of attributes in
> general, but a property of the whitespace attribute in particular.
> See core.whitespace in git-config(1) and "Checking whitespace
> errors" in gitattributes(5).
ah, i was digging through the code trying to figure out where the
whole CSV thing was explained -- it's massively helpful to understand
that that property is specific to whitespace. that does not appear to
be clarified anywhere.
rday
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