On Sat, Mar 16 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > more nitpicking, but i'm working my way through the intricacies of > attributes and putting together some (allegedly) simple examples for a > class i'm giving on monday, and i noted a couple possible shortcomings > in "man gitattributes". > > as a working example, i looked at the top-level .gitattributes file > in the git source code itself, which opens with: > > * whitespace=!indent,trail,space > *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp > *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf > ... snip ... > > first observation is that i see nothing in the man page that explains > the notion of a comma-separated list of attribute values. maybe i > missed it or maybe it's supposed to be intuitively obvious, but > there's nothing i can see that mentions the possibility. > > related to that is that there is no explanation as to how to > interpret: > > * whitespace=!indent,trail,space > > does the "!" apply to "indent" or to the entire list? the man page > doesn't say. > > just being pedantic again. > > rday It's documented in gitglossary, search for "attr". That's not an excuse or a statement that that doesn't suck, just a pointer for anyone interested in fixing the docs.
