From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:19:20 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive and unwanted .gitattributes
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0806070919k105263c8ybc9c04ffd11e3224@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m33anpxn63.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Currently attr.c will read .gitattributes on disk no matter there is a
>> real worktree or not.
>
> Currently .gitattributes are read _only_ from the work tree.
> There isn't even infrastructure to read .gitattributes for commit
> (from a tree); git-check-attr, and I guess also internal git API,
> deals only with in-tree .gitattribute file.

I saw it read from index but forgot that index != tree :( So
git-archive + export-subst just does not work as expected.

-- 
Duy