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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-10 00:14:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-10 00:14:50 -0700 |
| commit | 6972ab7ae10a205bbc05b98408a36403915a9c39 (patch) | |
| tree | 755ab51db764a7d35e9546eb30a5d4440291b014 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'sp/maint-no-thin' (diff) | |
| parent | archive - leakfix for format_subst() (diff) | |
| download | tgif-6972ab7ae10a205bbc05b98408a36403915a9c39.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'rs/archive'
* rs/archive:
archive - leakfix for format_subst()
Define NO_MEMMEM on Darwin as it lacks the function
archive: rename attribute specfile to export-subst
archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just "%PLCHLDR" (take 2)
add memmem()
Remove unused function convert_sha1_file()
archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)
Export format_commit_message()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 46f9d591aa..d0e951ee6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -421,6 +421,23 @@ frotz unspecified ---------------------------------------------------------------- +Creating an archive +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +`export-subst` +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +If the attribute `export-subst` is set for a file then git will expand +several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The +expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e. if +gitlink:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a +tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same +as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of gitlink:git-log[1], +except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$` +in the file. E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the +commit hash. + + GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |