Re: [PATCH] git-archive documentation: .gitattributes must be committed

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

By the way, if you commit the attributes file, then commit the removal of
that attributes file, would that removed attributes file take effect when
you archive HEAD^ (which still had the attribues file)?  That's how I read
what the added description claims, but I somehow suspect that is not what
actually happens.

Scratch this part, please.  You do read the tree into the index to make
it happen.