From: M Lewis <picevio@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, picevio <picevio@gmail.com>
Subject: GitAttributes feature export-ignore works, but -export-ignore (with dash) should also work
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:44:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01e0a4ab-d809-d968-5671-b731438c2bc4@gmail.com> (raw)
When running 'git archive', the .gitattributes file is used to determine
paths that should be ignored when building the archive by using
'export-ignore'.
But it would be useful to include certain sub-paths in the ignored path.
For example, say I have folders like these
/all_useful # this entire sub directory is needed
in the archive
/mostly_unuseful # there are many sub directories in
here to ignore
/mostly_unuseful/needed_a # but these specific sub directories are
desired in the archive
/mostly_unuseful/needed_b
The git-attribute document says a dash '-' prefix should unset the
attribute. It should work with 'export-ignore'
So if I want for example '/mostly_unuseful/needed_a' in my archive, I
should be able to specify that
in my .gitattributes file like this:
/mostly_unuseful export-ignore # do not archive
/mostly_unuseful/needed_a -export-ignore # do add to archive
/mostly_unuseful/needed_b -export-ignore # do add to archive
Thank you
next reply other threads:[~2019-11-20 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-20 16:44 M Lewis [this message]
2019-11-21 7:58 ` GitAttributes feature export-ignore works, but -export-ignore (with dash) should also work Jeff King
2019-11-21 13:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-22 6:59 ` Jeff King
2019-11-21 15:45 ` M Lewis
2019-11-22 6:54 ` Jeff King
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