Sorry to tack on to my previous email, but I just thought of this: If something like "-diff=lfs" won't do what I (and git-lfs) thought it would, do you think it would be prudent/reasonable to suggest git-lfs add a "no-lfs" filter for exactly this case? That way I could have explicit exclusions without any "diff=foo" shenanigans. Thanks again, - Dakota On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Dakota Hawkins <dakota@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply! > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:49:28PM -0400, Dakota Hawkins wrote: >> >>> Summary: Trying to apply attributes to file extensions everywhere >>> except in one directory. >>> >>> .gitattributes: >>> >>> *.[Pp][Nn][Gg] filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text >>> /.readme-docs/ -filter=lfs -diff=lfs -merge=lfs >>> >>> Make some data: >>> >>> echo "asldkjfa;sldkjf;alsdjf" > ./.readme-docs/test.png >>> git add -A >> >> As you noted below, that second line does not match your path, because >> attributes on a directory aren't applied recursively. And it has nothing >> to do with overriding. If you remove the png line entirely, you can see >> that we still do not match it. You need to use "*" to match the paths. > > Ah, yes, I see that. Inconsistent with .gitignore (more below), right? > >> You may also find that "-diff=lfs" does not do quite what you want. >> There is no way to say "cancel any previous attribute", which I think is >> what you're trying for here. You can only override it with a new value. >> So: >> >> /.readme-docs/* -diff >> >> says "do not diff this". And: >> >> /.readme-docs/* diff >> >> says "diff this as text, even if it looks binary". >> >> The best you can probably do is: >> >> /.readme-docs/* diff=foo >> >> Since you have no diff.foo.* config, that will behave in the default way >> (including respecting the usual "is it binary" checks). So a bit hacky, >> but I think it would work as "ignore prior diff". >> >> And I think filter and merge drivers should work the same. > > That's interesting... in this case I was taking my advice on how this > should work from the git-lfs folks. I have promised to share what I > find here with them, so that will help at least :) > > I think that makes sense to me -- there would be no good way to tell > it what the default should have been without explicitly telling it > what to use instead. > >>> Is this me misunderstanding something in the documentation? I would >>> expect "./.readme-docs/" to match "./.readme-docs/test.png" and >>> override the earlier "*.[Pp][Nn][Gg]" attributes. >>> >>> I have found the following overrides to work in lieu of the directory match: >>> >>> /.readme-docs/* -filter=lfs -diff=lfs -merge=lfs >>> /.readme-docs/**/* -filter=lfs -diff=lfs -merge=lfs >>> >>> ...but I don't see a justification in the documentation for this >>> working and the original directory filter not working. >> >> I could not find anything useful in gitattributes(5). There's some old >> discussion here: >> >> https://public-inbox.org/git/slrnkldd3g.1l4.jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > If I follow that correctly: There's some initial speculation that it > would be OK to apply the attributes recursively, which is then shot > down because it wasn't designed to be recursive (though I don't see a > different, technical reason for that), followed by finding a (this > same?) solution/workaround for the original problem. Is that about > right? > >> which makes it clear that attributes aren't recursive, but it's probably >> worth calling out in the documentation. In fact, I think the current >> documentation is a bit misleading in that it says "patterns are matched >> as in .gitignore", which is clearly not the case here. > > I was indeed going off of the suggestion to consult the .gitignore > pattern matching documentation. > >> I think just "/.readme-docs/**" should be sufficient for your case. You >> could also probably write "*" inside ".readme-docs/.gitattributes", >> which may be simpler (you don't need "**" there because patterns without >> a slash are just matched directly against the basename). > > Wouldn't that make the "*" inside ".readme-docs/.gitattributes", > technically recursive when "*" matches a directory? It's always seemed > to me that both were necessary to explicitly match things in a > directory and its subdirectories (example, IIRC: "git ls-files -- > .gitattributes" vs "git ls-files -- .gitattributes > **/.gitattributes"). Maybe that example is peculiar in that its a > dotfile and can't have a wildcard before the dot? > > I guess my takeaway is that it would be _good_ if the gitattributes > documentation contained the caveat about not matching directories > recursively, but _great_ if gitattributes and gitignore (and whatever > else there is) were consistent. > > At any rate, thanks for the great, quick help! > > -Dakota
