"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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"?
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