Re: General questions - git archive a .j2 file with keyword expansion in the header section

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:28:11PM +0000, Lin, Nathan (GSE) wrote:

Got a question on using git keyword expansion on a .j2 template file.
Keyword expansion does not seem to work with .j2 file. Please see
below a snippet of my attempt to archive test.cfg.j2 containing git
keyword expansions in the header. It works if I changes the .j2 file
extension to something else, say .yaml. I have not been able to find
any information about issue. Can you please review and advise? Thank
you.

Do you have .gitattributes entries that tell Git it should apply the
"export-subst" attribute to any files? If so, does it cover .yaml files,
but not .j2?

-Peff