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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:35:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvcs370d1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8C9A35.5030504@svario.it> (Gioele Barabucci's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:56:05 +0200")

Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> writes:

> On 05/10/2011 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> In fact the support for gitattributes using patterns involving "." was
>>> pretty spotty in v1.7.6 too.  For example,
>>
>> The attribute patterns (or exclude patterns for that matter) were never
>> designed to name "the current directory". The way to name "everything *in*
>> this directory" has always been to say "*" (the "* text=auto" example in
>> the documentation says it shows how to set the attribute "for all
>> files"). Admittedly the pattern may miss ".*" files.
>
> What if I do not want to say things about the "content" of the
> directory but about the directory itself? This is exactly my case.

Oh, that is totally different. We do not store directories, and they do
not have attributes, period.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-04 18:52 Git attributes ignored for root directory Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 12:05 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-05 14:47   ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 17:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-05 17:56     ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 18:35       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-10-05 20:17         ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 20:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 22:35     ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 23:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-13 10:49         ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-13 13:16           ` Johannes Sixt
2011-10-13 17:38           ` Junio C Hamano

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