Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > as a working example, i looked at the top-level .gitattributes file > in the git source code itself, which opens with: > > * whitespace=!indent,trail,space > *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp > *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf > ... snip ... > > first observation is that i see nothing in the man page that explains > the notion of a comma-separated list of attribute values.
This comma-separated list is not a property of attributes in general, but a property of the whitespace attribute in particular. See core.whitespace in git-config(1) and "Checking whitespace errors" in gitattributes(5). -- Hannes
