Re: git check-attr in bare repositories

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2010, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20100330212222.GA11192@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <19377.33747.838003.360864@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Well, using the index this way seems like a kind of a hack anyway, so
> I'm not sure that there is any reason to do this.

Most git commands do write out the tree they are working with to an (in-memory or on-disk) index, so using the index this way would make a warped kind of sense. But I agree that it is ugly.

> If anything, I'd
> like it if `check-attr' could just use the repository directly instead
> of the index (or a work tree) in a bare repository.

I think the right thing to do is to put this functionality in a new ‘git ls’ command. Maybe something like this:

 $ git ls --format='%p %a(crlf)' master -- '*.txt'
 some/path/foo.txt crlf:input
 some/path/bar.txt crlf
 some/path/other.txt !crlf
 yet/another/path.txt 
 $

I can not promise I will find time before the weekend to work on it. I wouldn’t be unhappy if someone else gets to it first.

Thanks for the explanations. Jonathan