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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"?

  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

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