From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:22:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git check-attr in bare repositories
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