* gitattributes don't work
@ 2011-01-03 0:42 Marcin Wiśnicki
2011-01-03 1:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
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From: Marcin Wiśnicki @ 2011-01-03 0:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
I'm trying to exclude certain paths (those that contain "xmac/gen/") from
diff output using .git/info/attributes (not .gitattributes).
According to gitattributes(5) it supports patterns from gitignore(5).
Example path that must be excluded:
src/byucc/jhdl/CSRC/xmac/gen/and2_dp_g.xmac
What I've tried but didn't work:
xmac/gen/ -diff
Following works but is not what I want:
*.xmac -diff
It seems I can only get it to work for file names but not for whole paths.
What am I doing wrong or is this a bug ?
git version 1.7.3.4
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2011-01-03 0:42 gitattributes don't work Marcin Wiśnicki
@ 2011-01-03 1:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-03 4:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-04 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Jonathan Nieder @ 2011-01-03 1:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marcin Wiśnicki; +Cc: git, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Marcin Wiśnicki wrote:
> I'm trying to exclude certain paths (those that contain "xmac/gen/") from
> diff output using .git/info/attributes (not .gitattributes).
Tricky. Have you tried
xmac?gen? -diff
? You might also be interested in the nd/struct-pathspec branch:
git clone git://repo.or.cz/git.git
cd git
git log --grep=nd/struct-pathspec
for some work and explanation on patterns used to specify paths.
Regards,
Jonathan
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* Re: gitattributes don't work
2011-01-03 0:42 gitattributes don't work Marcin Wiśnicki
2011-01-03 1:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
@ 2011-01-03 4:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-04 2:16 ` Marcin Wiśnicki
2011-01-04 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy @ 2011-01-03 4:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marcin Wiśnicki; +Cc: git, Joshua Jensen
2011/1/3 Marcin Wiśnicki <mwisnicki@gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to exclude certain paths (those that contain "xmac/gen/") from
> diff output using .git/info/attributes (not .gitattributes).
>
> According to gitattributes(5) it supports patterns from gitignore(5).
>
> Example path that must be excluded:
> src/byucc/jhdl/CSRC/xmac/gen/and2_dp_g.xmac
>
> What I've tried but didn't work:
> xmac/gen/ -diff
>
> Following works but is not what I want:
> *.xmac -diff
>
> It seems I can only get it to work for file names but not for whole paths.
> What am I doing wrong or is this a bug ?
While gitattributes(5) says that, actually gitattributes and gitignore
use different matching implementations. gitattributes one seems
unchanged since its introduction in d0bfd02 (Add basic infrastructure
to assign attributes to paths - 2007-04-12). gitignore on the other
hand learned foo/ pattern later in d6b8fc3 (gitignore(5): Allow "foo/"
in ignore list to match directory "foo" - 2008-01-31).
Yeah, it looks like a bug to me. A better way to solve this once and
for all, is to unify the two implementations (which is good for
gitattr because there have been optimizations added to gitignore). I
tried long ago and gave up. Something to do with the order of matching
(gitignore tries inner directories first, while gitattr starts from
outer ones).
For the time being, anyone who changes gitignore should be reminded to
consider whether it's applicable to gitattributes and vice versa.
Which reminds me, Joshua, maybe you should add case-insensitive
support to gitattributes too ;-)
--
Duy
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* Re: gitattributes don't work
2011-01-03 4:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
@ 2011-01-04 2:16 ` Marcin Wiśnicki
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From: Marcin Wiśnicki @ 2011-01-04 2:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:34:00 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> 2011/1/3 Marcin Wiśnicki <mwisnicki@gmail.com>:
>>
>> According to gitattributes(5) it supports patterns from gitignore(5).
>
> While gitattributes(5) says that, actually gitattributes and gitignore
> [snip]
> Yeah, it looks like a bug to me. A better way to solve this once and for
> [snip]
> For the time being, anyone who changes gitignore should be reminded to
> consider whether it's applicable to gitattributes and vice versa.
I think that for the time being at least the manual page must change to
reflect reality.
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* Re: gitattributes don't work
2011-01-03 0:42 gitattributes don't work Marcin Wiśnicki
2011-01-03 1:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-03 4:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
@ 2011-01-04 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2011-01-04 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marcin Wiśnicki; +Cc: git
Marcin Wiśnicki <mwisnicki@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm trying to exclude certain paths (those that contain "xmac/gen/") from
> diff output using .git/info/attributes (not .gitattributes).
>
> According to gitattributes(5) it supports patterns from gitignore(5).
>
> Example path that must be excluded:
> src/byucc/jhdl/CSRC/xmac/gen/and2_dp_g.xmac
>
> What I've tried but didn't work:
> xmac/gen/ -diff
Why not "xmac/gen/* -diff" or even "xmac/gen/*.xmac -diff"?
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