From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?
Message-ID: <7vwrd0xzdc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E7AF1AE.5030005@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I would like the checking configuration to be *versioned* along with the
> code.  For example, suppose my project decides to enforce a rule that
> all Python code needs to be indented with spaces.  It might be that not
> all of our old code adheres to this rule, and that we only want to clean
> up the code in master.

You want to sneak in a badly formatted code? Add an entry to the in-tree
attributes file to disable whitespace checking to cover that file!

So even though I agree with you that the check mechanism may need to be
aware of what revision it is checking and adjust which rules are applied
when checking the revision, I do not think using in-tree attribute file is
the right solution to that problem.