Meanwhile, I can answer my own question:
The "text" attribute works similar to a filter.
As with filters in general, it is only applied when git detects a
modification in the file. A file change is detected by the file
modification time on disc. To reread all files from disk and re-apply
the filters to all of them, you would typically delete the .git/index
file. In filter-branch, this is not possible, so instead you have to
"touch" all files in the --tree-filter command.
Am 03.02.12 13:55, schrieb norbert.nemec:
Hi there,
it seems that 'git filter-branch' ignores the setting in
.git/info/attributes - is that correct?
Does .gitattributes work reliably?
Specifically, I tried
git filter-branch \
--tree-filter 'echo "* text=auto" > .gitattributes' \
--tag-name-filter cat
--prune-empty -- --all
It seems to work, but I am not sure whether I missed anything.
Greetings,
Norbert
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