From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:14:44 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?,.gitacls? etc.
Message-ID: <7vk5r5jzpn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950709050106j137215obd7272b2a77c3b13@mail.gmail.com>

"Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:

> I assert that since index does not have .gitattributes the one from
> local directory should not be used.
>
> Think about dedicated build machine scenario: I have a machine that
> always does sync + build. After every sync the local directory should
> always be identical to what-was-committed.

Thinking about the reason _why_ .gitattributes may be updated,
one would notice that it is because somebody did this command
sequence:

	git checkout		;# now work tree is clean
	edit .gitattributes	;# modify the attributes of a file
	edit file		;# edit the file attributes talks about
	git add file		;# this can be affected by .gitattributes
	git add .gitattributes	;# this is changed in the same commit
	git commit

Now, should we always take .gitattributes from the index?