Gioele Barabucci <gioele@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 05/10/2011 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> In fact the support for gitattributes using patterns involving "." was >>> pretty spotty in v1.7.6 too. For example, >> >> The attribute patterns (or exclude patterns for that matter) were never >> designed to name "the current directory". The way to name "everything *in* >> this directory" has always been to say "*" (the "* text=auto" example in >> the documentation says it shows how to set the attribute "for all >> files"). Admittedly the pattern may miss ".*" files. > > What if I do not want to say things about the "content" of the > directory but about the directory itself? This is exactly my case. Oh, that is totally different. We do not store directories, and they do not have attributes, period. -- 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