Add a note to the documentation stating that the .gitattributes file must be present (i.e. committed) in the named tree that is exported. This can be a bit confusing because it's different from .gitignore which takes effect as soon as the file is created. Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <fmarier@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-archive.txt | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 799c8b6..fcd681d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ export-subst:: expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. +The .gitattributes file must be present in the named tree for it to take +effect. Uncommitted attributes will not be considered in exports. + EXAMPLES -------- git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -):: -- 1.6.6.1 -- 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