Re: [PATCH] doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior

[Dakota Hawkins <dakota@dakotahawkins.com>]

That's perfect, thank you so much!

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:14 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:04:11AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> > I guess my takeaway is that it would be _good_ if the gitattributes
>> > documentation contained the caveat about not matching directories
>> > recursively, but _great_ if gitattributes and gitignore (and whatever
>> > else there is) were consistent.
>>
>> I agree it would be nice if they were consistent (and pathspecs, too).
>> But unfortunately at this point there's a maze of backwards
>> compatibility to deal with.
>
> So let's not forget to do the easy half there. Here's a patch.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior
>
> The gitattributes documentation claims that the pattern
> rules are largely the same as for gitignore. However, the
> rules for recursion are different.
>
> In an ideal world, we would make them the same (if for
> nothing else than consistency and simplicity), but that
> would create backwards compatibility issues. For some
> discussion, see this thread:
>
>   https://public-inbox.org/git/slrnkldd3g.1l4.jan@majutsushi.net/
>
> But let's at least document the differences instead of
> actively misleading the user by claiming that they're the
> same.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 13 ++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
> index d52b254a22..1094fe2b5b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
> @@ -56,9 +56,16 @@ Unspecified::
>
>  When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line
>  overrides an earlier line.  This overriding is done per
> -attribute.  The rules how the pattern matches paths are the
> -same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
> -Unlike `.gitignore`, negative patterns are forbidden.
> +attribute.
> +
> +The rules by which the pattern matches paths are the same as in
> +`.gitignore` files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), with a few exceptions:
> +
> +  - negative patterns are forbidden
> +
> +  - patterns that match a directory do not recursively match paths
> +    inside that directory (so using the trailing-slash `path/` syntax is
> +    pointless in an attributes file; use `path/**` instead)
>
>  When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, Git
>  consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
> --
> 2.17.0.rc0.402.ged0b3fd1ee
>