From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "man gitattributes" doesn't explain comma-separated attribute values
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:58:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408d82f6-e935-487a-6d0c-9ec4be5e8b6e@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1903160816410.10724@localhost.localdomain>
Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> as a working example, i looked at the top-level .gitattributes file
> in the git source code itself, which opens with:
>
> * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
> *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
> *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
> ... snip ...
>
> first observation is that i see nothing in the man page that explains
> the notion of a comma-separated list of attribute values.
This comma-separated list is not a property of attributes in general,
but a property of the whitespace attribute in particular. See
core.whitespace in git-config(1) and "Checking whitespace errors" in
gitattributes(5).
-- Hannes
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 12:22 "man gitattributes" doesn't explain comma-separated attribute values Robert P. J. Day
2019-03-16 13:13 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-16 13:48 ` Robert P. J. Day
2019-03-16 21:58 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2019-03-16 22:09 ` Robert P. J. Day
2019-03-17 8:18 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-03-18 10:10 ` Philip Oakley
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