Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Feb 17, 2012, 19:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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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" ;-)
Ah, I take that back.
There is any benefit to be had by using "read-tree --index-output" in the way used in your check-attr example. Setting up a single GIT_INDEX_FILE and using it throughout as you did is indeed much more preferrable.
> But what you outlined should work.