Jeff King wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:08:30PM +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
If one creates a .git/info/attributes file in a Git repo, it will not be
present in cloned repos.
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it /seems/ wrong behaviour to
me, and reading from the manual pages.
It is not a bug. The .gitattributes file in your working directory _is_
cloned, and that is the right place to put things that you want to be
revision-controlled and used in every repo. The .git/info/attributes
file is for attributes that are purely local to that repo. This is
similar to the split between .git/info/exclude and .gitignore.
Ah, OK.
I was hoping not to use .gitattributes, as then the attributes are
ignored when doing something like:
git archive --remote=example.com:/path/to/repo release/v2.1 | tar xf -
Can you point out which part of the manual gave the wrong impression (or
better yet, submit a patch making it more clear)?
Now that you've mentioned the difference between info/exclude and
.gitignore, I see that in the docs/user-manual.html it is said:
"If you wish the exclude patterns to affect only certain repositories
(instead of every repository for a given project), you may instead put
them in a file in your repository named .git/info/exclude, or in any
file specified by the core.excludesfile configuration variable."
That gives a clue that the /info/ files are repo-specific.
However in gitignore(5) and gitattributes(5), there is no explanation of
this - it simply mentions that the info version is a higher priority
than the .git{ignore,attributes} version.
I suggest that the individual docs/man-pages should mention that too.
I'll submit a patch in a separate email, as long as I'm not still
misunderstanding the mechanism.
Is there a recommended way to make attributes apply to commands run on a
remote repository, or is that a different bug?
thanks,
Toby
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