filter-branch ignoring gitattributes?

filter-branch ignoring gitattributes?

[norbert.nemec]

Hi there,

it seems that 'git filter-branch' ignores the setting in
.git/info/attributes - is that correct?

Does .gitattributes work reliably?

Specifically, I tried

	git filter-branch \
		--tree-filter 'echo "* text=auto" > .gitattributes' \
             	--tag-name-filter cat
		--prune-empty -- --all

It seems to work, but I am not sure whether I missed anything.

Greetings,
Norbert

Re: filter-branch ignoring gitattributes?

[norbert.nemec]

Meanwhile, I can answer my own question:

The "text" attribute works similar to a filter.
As with filters in general, it is only applied when git detects a 
modification in the file. A file change is detected by the file 
modification time on disc. To reread all files from disk and re-apply 
the filters to all of them, you would typically delete the .git/index 
file. In filter-branch, this is not possible, so instead you have to 
"touch" all files in the --tree-filter command.


Am 03.02.12 13:55, schrieb norbert.nemec:
> Hi there,
>
> it seems that 'git filter-branch' ignores the setting in
> .git/info/attributes - is that correct?
>
> Does .gitattributes work reliably?
>
> Specifically, I tried
>
> git filter-branch \
> --tree-filter 'echo "* text=auto" > .gitattributes' \
> --tag-name-filter cat
> --prune-empty -- --all
>
> It seems to work, but I am not sure whether I missed anything.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>