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From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to exclude some files when using git-archive?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:26:46 +0800
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I want to exclude .gitignore from the archive, but hasn't find a easy way
>>
>> Ping Yin
>
> "man gitattributes", then look for export-ignore?
>
>

Thanks. That's exactly what i want.

One question: It seems the .gitattributes doesn't take effect when
using following command

GIT_DIR=A/.git git archive HEAD > A.tar

where the files with attribute export-ignore are still exported.

Instead, i have to run

cd A && git archive HEAD > A.tar

Ping Yin