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Recommend using '**' to encrypt entire directories

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gitattributes now supports '**' to mean 'entire subtree'.
Using '*' instead of '**' is an easy mistake to make with pretty
bad consequences. Hopefully this added emphasis will make
it less likely users make the mistake.
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Yuvi Panda
2018-08-07 17:57:19 -07:00
committed by Andrew Ayer
parent af846389e5
commit 29974b4fba
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@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Specify files to encrypt by creating a .gitattributes file:
secretfile filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
*.key filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
secretdir/** filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
Like a .gitignore file, it can match wildcards and should be checked into
the repository. See below for more information about .gitattributes.
@@ -150,14 +151,9 @@ specifying merely a directory (e.g. `/dir/`) is *not* sufficient to
encrypt all files beneath it.
Also note that the pattern `dir/*` does not match files under
sub-directories of dir/. To encrypt an entire sub-tree dir/, place the
following in dir/.gitattributes:
sub-directories of dir/. To encrypt an entire sub-tree dir/, use `dir/**`:
* filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
.gitattributes !filter !diff
The second pattern is essential for ensuring that .gitattributes itself
is not encrypted.
/dir/** filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
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