Re: Generic filters for git archive?
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Russ Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>
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- Dec 15, 2009, 07:08 UTC
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM, René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
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> Am 08.12.2009 02:06, schrieb Russ Dill: >> I'm trying to add copyright headers to my source files as they are >> exported via git archive. eg: >> >> * $Copyright$ >> >> to >> >> * Copyright (c) 2003-2009 by Foo Bar >> * >> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it >> * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the >> * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your >> * option) any later version. >> * >> * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but >> * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY >> * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License >> * for more details. >> * >> * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License >> * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, >> * Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. >> >> And properly handling things like '# $Copyright$', '// $Copyright$', >> etc. I have a sed script that does this, but no way to apply it to the >> output of git archive. I tried setting up a smudge filter that would >> only smudge output on archive exports, but it doesn't appear that the >> smudge filters get run on git archive. >> >> I am currently running 1.6.3.3 > > Is the filter attribute contained in a .gitattribute file that's part of > the tree you are trying to export? If it's only in the worktree copy, > then you need to use the option --worktree-attributes to make git > archive use it.
hmm..It does seem to be running. But I'd really like to use the gitattributes from the tagged version I'm exporting and I don't want the smudge filter to run on files I'm working on in my source tree, just on the export.