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Andrej Shadura
gbp-setup-gitattributes &dhsection; gbp-setup-gitattributes Set up &git; attributes for packaging &gbp-setup-gitattributes; &man.common.options.synopsis; DESCRIPTION &gbp-setup-gitattributes; sets up .git/info/attributes in the current &git; repository to sane defaults most suitable for packaging work. At the moment, this amounts to making sure no transformations happen during checkout, commit or export. More attributes may be added in future, by default all known settings are applied. Upstream sources may ship .gitattributes files enabling certain transformations to the committed source, usually to make working with files in different encodings more convenient for the upstream authors. For Debian packaging, it is necessary to override these attributes, since they cause often unwanted conversion of files (e.g. line endings, encodings and some others). Working with such source tree is confusing, since the working tree differs from the Git history (and sometimes from the source tarball), and can lead to errors. By default, &gbp-clone; tries to detect the usage of .gitattributes in the upstream source and disables the Git attributes only when necessary. OPTIONS &man.common.options.description; This method is compatible with dgit and git-deborig which use this macro attribute. Older versions of dgit use an incomplete preset missing some attributes; if such is found, it is replaced by an updated definition. Apply all known &git; attribute settings. This is the default. SEE ALSO , , , gitattributes 5 , dgit 7 AUTHOR Andrej Shadura andrew@shadura.me