git ignoring .gitattributes pattern

Question

I\'ve a directory structure like this:

root/
  .git
  deploy/
  Site/
    blah/
    more_blah/
      something.local
      else.development
    Rakefile
             


        

Answer 1

For directories I had problems with different versions of git, so I had to include an entry both with and without a training slash:

• foo/bar export-ignore
• foo/bar/ export-ignore

Where foo/bar is relative to the where I ran git archive, but the actual .gitattributes was in the project root directory in addition to --worktree-attributes as noted above.