From: Russ Dill Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:08:42 GMT Subject: Re: Generic filters for git archive? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4B202945.50200@lsrfire.ath.cx> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM, René Scharfe wrote: > 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.