What
This concerns syncing files between your machine and a cloud session. .gitattributes is a git file that sets rules for particular paths. The sync snapshot changes as follows:
- It can take extra
attributeSources, each a commit or a tree (a saved folder state in git), and caches those attribute trees in its sync repository. - It reports
attributesTreesandattributesNotKept, with the reason given as gone, overflow or missing. - It has several new error messages, such as "could not read back what the cloud session was last sent for the files kept on this machine".
- Paths held at the state last sent to the cloud are now also protected when files or directories are moved.
- Sync results can report two new reasons for not being installed: "deferred" and "stale_basis".
- Installs from your machine are folded into the tree both sides agree on.
Why
The cloud side can respect more of your committed .gitattributes rules. When a sync is not applied, or something could not be read back, the report now says more precisely why.
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The finding does not say what folding your machine's installs into the agreed tree changes for a user.