Am 16.03.19 um 23:09 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: >>> 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. >> >> This comma-separated list is not a property of attributes in >> general, but a property of the whitespace attribute in particular. >> See core.whitespace in git-config(1) and "Checking whitespace >> errors" in gitattributes(5). > > ah, i was digging through the code trying to figure out where the > whole CSV thing was explained -- it's massively helpful to understand > that that property is specific to whitespace. that does not appear to > be clarified anywhere. But it is. The very first paragraph of gitattributes(5) states that attributes are whitespace separated. From this, conclude that the comma-separated list must pertain to the whitespace attribute. Now follow the documentation of that, and you end up at core.whitespace in git-config(1). There you have it as the very first phrase. -- Hannes
