Re: [PATCH] git-archive documentation: .gitattributes must be committed

["René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>]

Am 10.02.2010 03:51, schrieb Francois Marier:
> Add a note to the documentation stating that the .gitattributes
> file must be present (i.e. committed) in the named tree that is
> exported.
> 
> This can be a bit confusing because it's different from .gitignore
> which takes effect as soon as the file is created.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <fmarier@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-archive.txt |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> index 799c8b6..fcd681d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ export-subst::
>  	expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
>  	See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
>  
> +The .gitattributes file must be present in the named tree for it to take
> +effect. Uncommitted attributes will not be considered in exports.
> +
>  EXAMPLES
>  --------
>  git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::

Yeah, the description of --worktree-attributes is a bit terse.  The
lines you add make it appear almost as if this switch doesn't exist,
though; perhaps add a "unless --worktree-attributes is given" or similar
to one of the new sentences?

René