On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > 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. ah, gotcha. thenk you kindly. rday
