On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:26:55PM +0000, codesite-noreply@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > New issue 332 by vsuvo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: .gitattributes dir/ patterns are > not processed > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=332 > > What steps will reproduce the problem? > 1. Create a project and initialize git: > md foo > cd foo > git init > > 2. create subdirectory and a file in it: > md bar > echo sample text >bar\testfile.txt > > 3. create .gitatributes, add/commit it: > echo bar/ binary >.gitattributes > git add .gitattributes > git commit -m "ground zero" > > 4. check bar\testfile.txt > git check-attr binary bar/testfile.txt > > What is the expected output? What do you see instead? > expected output: "bar/testfile.txt": binary: set > see instead: "bar/testfile.txt": binary: unspecified This issue came up on the msysgit bug tracker. So here is either the documentation wrong or the implementation. Because it does not make sense to specify any attributes to directories itself I would expect the contents of the directory to get the attributes. What do you think? cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html