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Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2012, 19:26 UTC
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> I was just alerted by Scott Chacon's blog [1] to the fact that one can
> set GIT_INDEX_FILE to an arbitrary filename, thereby causing the index
> to be read/written from that file instead of $GIT_DIR/index.

That's very old fashioned. For almost five years, the preferred way to say that has been "git read-tree --index-output=file" ;-)

But what you outlined should work.
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