Re: Git no longer reads attributes from the index properly

> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:27:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing) writes:
>>> As of 34110cd4e394e3f92c01a4709689b384c34645d8, (2008-03-06, just over a
>>> year ago), Git no longer reads attributes from the index properly in all
>>> cases....
>>
>> Perhaps you would want to try it on 06f33c1 (Read attributes from the
>> index that is being checked out, 2009-03-13) that is part of 'pu'?
> 
> I only tried it on next, groan.  Yes, it works there, thanks.
> 
> However, that commit looks like it's solving a different problem
> entirely (supporting changing between two branches where .gitattributes
> exists in both cases) and happens to fix the no .gitattributes -> read
> from index regression at the same time.  I don't know enough about the
> guts to tell, but does this also fix the core problem of the regression
> (I assume something about trying to read from the wrong index, given the
> commit that broke it), or does it just happen to work around it?
> 
> Specifically, it would be nice to have a fix for the regression that
> could land on maint relatively soon, as the initial checkout case is
> breaking a real repository I use, whereas the switching branches case is
> something I don't care about as much at the moment.
> 
> Of course, I don't know how to fix it at the moment, and beggars can't
> be choosers.  :)