Re: [msysGit] Issue 332 in msysgit: .gitattributes dir/ patterns are not processed

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:26:55PM +0000, codesite-noreply@google.com wrote:

New issue 332 by vsuvo...@geolearning.com: .gitattributes dir/ patterns are  
not processed
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=332

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a project and initialize git:
    md foo
    cd foo
    git init

2. create subdirectory and a file in it:
    md bar
    echo sample text >bar\testfile.txt

3. create .gitatributes, add/commit it:
    echo bar/ binary >.gitattributes
    git add .gitattributes
    git commit -m "ground zero"

4. check bar\testfile.txt
    git check-attr binary bar/testfile.txt

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected output: "bar/testfile.txt": binary: set
see instead:     "bar/testfile.txt": binary: unspecified

This issue came up on the msysgit bug tracker. So here is either the
documentation wrong or the implementation.

Because it does not make sense to specify any attributes to directories
itself I would expect the contents of the directory to get the
attributes.

What do you think?

cheers Heiko