Re: .gittattributes handling has deficiencies

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
>> On Oct 21, 2007, at 11:19 AM, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>
>>>> But this is really hard to solve. We would need to compare
>>>> attributes before and after for _all_ files that have attributes
>>>> in one of the two commits and check if they changed. If so, we
>>>> need to do a fresh checkout according to the new attributes.
>>> if you know that you will get the new .gitattributes if it  
>>> changes, setup a post-checkout hook to checkout everything if it  
>>> has changed. it's far from ideal, but it should be a good, safe,  
>>> first approximation.
>>
>>
>> That's not good enough. I'll stop using .gitattributes. I
>> need to teach >40 devs how to use git on Windows. I only use
>> features that work flawlessly. .gitattributes doesn't. It bit
>> me twice now.
>
> why would checking everything out if .gitattributes has changed not  
> work? I can see why _not_ doing so would cause problems, and I  
> freely acknowledge that this approach imposes a performance hit by  
> checking everything out twice, but I don't see how it would not be  
> reliable.