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

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

Am 10.02.2010 20:27, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> 
>>> +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?
> 
> My impression has always been that people use attributes with archive more
> often to _tweak_ how the archive is produced after the fact, and they do
> so by modifying checked out .gitattributes (or $GIT_DIR/info/attributes)
> than allowing a possibly stale .gitattributes file etched in stone^Wtree
> being archived.  So in that sense, probably --worktree-attributes should
> have been the default.

That was the case up to ba053ea9 (April 2009, archive: do not read
.gitattributes in working directory).  I think that the current
behaviour makes sense because it provides a repeatable default.

René