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.gitattributes Globs Don't Work In Nested Directories

See original GitHub issue

Version: Both 1.17.1 (Fedora 31 Repositories) and 1.20.0 (Master)

Example .gitattributes:

**/src export-ignore
/**/*.sh export-ignore
/.luacheckrc export-ignore
/.lua-format export-ignore
/.gitignore export-ignore
/palette.png export-ignore
/CONTRIBUTING.md export-ignore

Repository: https://gitlab.com/benrob0329/ikea

Resulting archive includes src directories, although the *.sh files in the root directory have been cleaned up.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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Kentzocommented, Feb 15, 2020

export-subst is not currently supported. Could you create a separate issue?

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Warr1024commented, Feb 15, 2020

Looks like it’s actually only fixed for export-ignore but still broken for export-subst.

Example repo: https://gitlab.com/sztest/nodecore

The affected file should be in mods/nc_api/version.lua.

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