Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:11:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: >> >> > Yes, it is the expected behavior, though I cannot offhand think of >> > anything that would break if we did apply it recursively. >> >> Conceptually that breaks our brain. "All files in doc/ directories >> are text" and "doc/ directory is text" are two different things, no? > > In some systems, yes, but git does not have any notion of "doc/" as an > item (after all, we track content in files, not directories), so I do > not see what it means to specify a directory except to say "everything > under it has this property".
That was true back when gitattributes (and ignore) was defined to apply only to the paths we track. But export-ignore abuses the attrtibute system, allows a directory to be specified in the match pattern, and we declared that is a kosher use by the patch that caused 1.8.1.X regression, no? So "Git does not have any notion of "doc/' as an item" is no longer true, I think. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
