From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Lin, Nathan (GSE)" <jih-tsen.nat.lin@hpe.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: General questions - git archive a .j2 file with keyword expansion in the header section
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:28:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YR7a8vKrYgFJof0D@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF4PR8401MB0795EE7D2828A45289295D3892C09@DF4PR8401MB0795.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:28:11PM +0000, Lin, Nathan (GSE) wrote:
> Got a question on using git keyword expansion on a .j2 template file.
> Keyword expansion does not seem to work with .j2 file. Please see
> below a snippet of my attempt to archive test.cfg.j2 containing git
> keyword expansions in the header. It works if I changes the .j2 file
> extension to something else, say .yaml. I have not been able to find
> any information about issue. Can you please review and advise? Thank
> you.
Do you have .gitattributes entries that tell Git it should apply the
"export-subst" attribute to any files? If so, does it cover .yaml files,
but not .j2?
-Peff
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2021-08-19 21:28 General questions - git archive a .j2 file with keyword expansion in the header section Lin, Nathan (GSE)
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