Add a note to the documentation stating that the .gitattributes
file must be present (i.e. committed) in the named tree that is
exported.
This can be a bit confusing because it's different from .gitignore
which takes effect as soon as the file is created.
Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <fmarier@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-archive.txt | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 799c8b6..fcd681d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ export-subst::
expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+The .gitattributes file must be present in the named tree for it to take
+effect. Uncommitted attributes will not be considered in exports.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
--
1.6.6.1
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