Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitattributes.txt: mention exceptions to gitignore rules

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:50:40 +0100

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 04.01.2011 14:31:
> gitattr and .gitignore are supposed to use the same rules for matching
> patterns. Unfortunately it's not exactly the same in reality. Mention
> the differences so users won't be surprised, until gitattr gets
> updates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  2011/1/4 Marcin Wiśnicki <[email-masked]>:
>  > I think that for the time being at least the manual page must change to
>  > reflect reality.
> 
>  Looks like changes will be more than just a few lines because path_matches()
>  needs to learn about directories (iow less likely to get fixed right away).
>  So, yes, good idea.
> 
>  I skimmed through excluded_from_list() (gitignore) and path_matches (gitattr).
>  Seems no other differences.
> 
>  Documentation/gitattributes.txt |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
> index 5a7f936..cfaf107 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line
>  overrides an earlier line.  This overriding is done per
>  attribute.  The rules how the pattern matches paths are the
>  same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
> +However patterns that end with a slash is not supported.

+However, patterns terminated by a slash are not supported.

>  
>  When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git
>  consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest

Cheers,
Michael