# Gitattributes not properly supported with add command

1 messages from 2018-09-12 to 2018-09-12. Participants: smaudet@sebastianaudet.com.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49327

## smaudet@sebastianaudet.com, 2018-09-12 13:16

Subject: Gitattributes not properly supported with add command
Message-ID: <20180912131625.GA7736@sebastianaudet.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180912131625.GA7736%40sebastianaudet.com

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The following:

git add -u :\(glob,attr:-someAttr\):src/**

Produces an error that, according to the source code, should never be visible to the user. This attribute/pathspec *should* be supported according to the documentation provided by git:

fatal: BUG:builtin/add.c:498: unsupported magic 40

It looks like the documentation claims more features than the source code supports, perhaps incorrectly because I think you shouldn't be restricted to a set of attributes, and the source code 
doesn't properly do its job anyways and never handles this scenario.

This should be fixed, if I have any time I'll look into what it would take to submit a patch, but I don't have the time for this right now.



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