Subject: Re: git-archive and unwanted .gitattributes

From: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:24:42 +0200

Jakub Narebski schrieb:
> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <[email-masked]> 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.

Attributes are taken from three places (in order of increasing
precedence): a table of built-in defaults, .gitattributes files in the
work tree, and the file $GIT_DIR/info/attributes.

René