On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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". > > You can say > > /.readme-docs/* !diff > > I think. Thre is a difference between setting it to "false" > (i.e. Unset) and reverting it to unspecified state. > > Isn't that what you want here? In this case, I think so? In this context I don't necessarily know the files in /.readme-docs/ are binary (though that's its intent). Ideally, I just want it to do whatever it did before the match gave it "diff=lfs". I realize that that's not possible/feasible, so I asked in a separate reply whether it might be a good idea to ask git-lfs for a "no-lfs" filter for exactly this situation. The actual "lfs" section of my .gitattributes file is about 65 lines for 65 different extensions, so I'd prefer to handle the exclusion of a directory without having to repeat that whole block with different options, if that makes sense :)
