# problems setting gitattribute ident for a whole directory

1 messages from 2009-08-07 to 2009-08-07. Participants: Edke.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20453

## Edke, 2009-08-07 15:21

Subject: problems setting gitattribute ident for a whole directory
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Hello. 

I'm moving from SVN to Git, started just two days ago. I'm amazed with Git
so far, also using it with SVN solid.

I'm having few difficulties setting ident attribute:

1) Setting it for a whole directory. I tried .git/info/attributes,
.gitattributes in root of my project, I tried some patterns ( app/*, app/,
app* ), nothing work so far. Using app/* works for files placed in app
folder but I need to apply this attribute for a whole directory
(recursively). 

2) If applied correctly, will it work with files that already exists in
project ? 

3) What I need to do so that changes (replacing $Id$ with hash) will show in
all affected files ? I found some tutorial, where author applies this as rm
file; git checkout -- file. But how should I proceed for a whole project ? 
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