Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory

Gioele Barabucci [off-list ref] writes:

On 05/10/2011 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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In fact the support for gitattributes using patterns involving "." was
pretty spotty in v1.7.6 too.  For example,

The attribute patterns (or exclude patterns for that matter) were never
designed to name "the current directory". The way to name "everything *in*
this directory" has always been to say "*" (the "* text=auto" example in
the documentation says it shows how to set the attribute "for all
files"). Admittedly the pattern may miss ".*" files.

What if I do not want to say things about the "content" of the
directory but about the directory itself? This is exactly my case.

Oh, that is totally different. We do not store directories, and they do
not have attributes, period.