From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: nospam@codegnome•org
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-archive ignores export-ignore
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:57:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vocknhs70.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100121221312.GB5307@penguin.codegnome.org> (Todd A. Jacobs's message of "Thu\, 21 Jan 2010 14\:13\:12 -0800")
"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome•org> writes:
> Using git 1.6.4.2, the manual page prophesies that:
>
> Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
> added to archive files. See gitattributes(5) for details.
>
> However, various tools seem to be unhappy about this attribute. In
> particular, checkout complains about invalid attributes:
>
> $ cat .gitattributes
> *.py export-subst
> *.html export-subst
> juniperxml.cfg export-ignore
>
> $ git checkout juniperxml.cfg
> export-ignore is not a valid attribute name: .gitattributes:3
$ cat .gitattributes
* whitespace=!indent,trail,space
*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space
*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space
COPYING export-ignore
$ git checkout COPYING
$ wc -l COPYING
360 COPYING
There is something that is different in my failed attempt to reproduce it
from your problem description, but I cannot tell what it is.
Do you have some garbage character immediately after "e" in "-ignore"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-22 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 22:13 git-archive ignores export-ignore Todd A. Jacobs
2010-01-22 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-01-22 18:07 ` Todd A. Jacobs
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=7vocknhs70.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org \
--to=gitster@pobox$(echo .)com \
--cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
--cc=nospam@codegnome$(echo .)org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox