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
It appears that git-archive doesn't seem to respect the attribute
either. Consider the following example:
cd /tmp
mkdir foo
cd foo
git init
touch foo.sh
echo '*sh' > .gitattributes
git add foo.sh
git add .gitattributes
git commit -m test
git archive HEAD
pax_global_header00006660000000000000000000000064113261226070014512gustar00rootroot0000000000000052 comment=202d78e6a44c7f10bee2ad96a3b2adc80fc33468
.gitattributes000066400000000000000000000000041132612260700137430ustar00rootroot00000000000000*sh
foo.sh000066400000000000000000000000001132612260700121630ustar00rootroot00000000000000
In addition to whatever bugs there might be in reading and applying the
attributes correctly, it would seem that the man page could be a bit
clearer on how and where to apply the attributes.
Assuming PEBKAC for the moment, how can I get the behavior I'm
expecting?
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