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gbp-setup-gitattributesSet up &git; attributes for packaging
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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
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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,
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gitattributes5,
dgit7AUTHOR
Andrej Shadura andrew@shadura.me