Amit Bakshi [off-list ref] writes:
Hi,
In the help for git-archive it states:
--worktree-attributes
Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too.
...
The worktree-attributes should read from the worktree. It should
not pay any attention to where you are in the directory hierarchy,
i.e. your current working directory (aka $cwd).
Would you accept a patch that either adds an option to explicitly set
the .gitattributes file or would let --worktree-attributes look in
$PWD.
The former, possibly, if accompanied with a good justification and
implemented cleanly.
The latter, definitely not.
Make it a bit clearer that --worktree-attributes is about files in the
working tree (checked out files, possibly changed) and not the current
working directory ($PDW). Link to the ATTRIBUTES section, which has
more details.
Reported-by: Amit Bakshi <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <redacted>
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Does this help a bit?
Documentation/git-archive.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index b4c2e24..3dd3069 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS
Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
--worktree-attributes::
- Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too.
+ Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree
+ as well (see <<ATTRIBUTES>>).
<extra>::
This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
--
1.8.2.1
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:49 PM, René Scharfe
[off-list ref] wrote:
Make it a bit clearer that --worktree-attributes is about files in the
working tree (checked out files, possibly changed) and not the current
working directory ($PDW). Link to the ATTRIBUTES section, which has
s/PDW/PWD/
more details.
Reported-by: Amit Bakshi <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <redacted>