Tested on latest maint and master. The 'export-ignore' gitattribute is documented as behaving on a pattern, just like in .gitignore. In repo where I have a tree like this: .gitattributes figures/ fr/figures/ I want to remove from archive all the figures directories. So I added figures/ export-ignore to the top level .gitattributes file. but then: $ git check-attr -a fr/figures $ git check-attr -a figures $ If I change the line in .gitattributes to : figures export-ignore I get the correct result, but I am not sure to exclude only directories. Am I wrong somewhere? Thank you. Jean-Noël AVILA -- 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