On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:00:51PM +1100, Alec Clews wrote: > The problem appears to be spaces around '=' in the attributes file. This > fails for me > [...] > echo '* merge = overwrite' >.git/info/attributes Ah, OK. That isn't supposed to work. The attributes are whitespace separated, and some don't even have an equals at all (e.g., "merge", "-merge", and "merge=foo" are all valid). So that parses to "please use the ordinary text merge driver", and some attributes that nobody uses called "=" and "overwrite". -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html