Re: Can git detect and manage source file's extensional attribute by command 'setfattr' ?

wangfeng wangfeng· Sep 4, 2014, 08:11 UTC · lore

Can git detect and manage source file's extensional attribute by command 'setfattr' ?

Hi ,
    I know that git can cope with file's chmod. But how about
setfattr? I have tried to set some extensional attribute with command
:
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setfattr -n user.t1 -v 1 testfile.txt
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It seems like git cannot detect it. So do I need some config option
for git? Or doesn't it have this feature?
    Thanks very much.

Wang

brian m. carlson· Sep 4, 2014, 13:07 UTC · re: wangfeng wangfeng · lore

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:11:06PM +0800, wangfeng wangfeng wrote:

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> Hi ,
>     I know that git can cope with file's chmod. But how about
> setfattr? I have tried to set some extensional attribute with command
> :
> ####
> setfattr -n user.t1 -v 1 testfile.txt
> ####
> It seems like git cannot detect it. So do I need some config option
> for git? Or doesn't it have this feature?
>     Thanks very much.

No, Git doesn't support extended attributes natively. In fact, the only modes that Git stores are the file type and the executable bit.

If you need to store this information, you could either have it recreated by running, say, a Makefile, or you could see if the filter functionality of .gitattributes does what you want.

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