On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:18:55PM +0300, Al Haraka wrote: > > which will make the repository-wide non-version-controlled gitattributes > > the same as the last committed version. The problem is that it won't be > > automatically updated as you commit and push changes to .gitattributes. > > I thought my plan was to try and avoid this by using the > core.attributesfile directive, forcing this stuff to operate system > (well, account, besides the point here) wide on all repos with > specifying a .gitattributes (or, since it base bare, as you pointed > out yourself, $GIT_REPO_DIR/info/attributes) every single time. Did I > misunderstand the mailing list thread that mentioned this a while > back? Ah, I see. That seems like a reasonable solution. Are you sure that the user running gitweb as a CGI is the same as the user you log in as? That is, are you sure that ~/.gitconfig is being parsed when it is called as a CGI, and it's not looking in ~www/.gitconfig or something? It would depend how your hosting is set up. > This is the reason I went through the trouble of compiling an updated > version in my account (as opposed to the installed version on the > Dreamhost box; they are stuck at version 1.7.1.1; I saw this mentioned > on a thread somewhere and wanted to get the "latest" (well latest > stable version) to avoid this kind of problem? Was that the right > thing to do? Will it even work in this case? I get the feeling from > your response I was expecting a lot with RTFM'ing more. It sounds like it should work to me, but I've not tested it (nor do I even run gitweb; I just have an interest in textconv). > Thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it. I am new to git, > but LOVE what you guys have being doing. I never used any DRCS before > this, personally or professionally, but read snippets of howtos and so > much good press I decided it was time I mooch off you guys to organize > my life. :-) You're welcome. Hopefully we can resolve your problem and get the answer at least in the list archive. And then you will have made the world a better place. :) -Peff -- 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