From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:03:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5075615B.8020702@viscovery.net> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Thanks for working on this issue! > > Am 10/10/2012 13:34, schrieb Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy: >> + linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Note that .gitattributes are only >> + support for searching files in working directory. > > Does this mean it does not work for 'git grep --cached'? That would be a > real loss. I missed this case. I don't think it works correctly before as it reads worktree's .gitattributes instead of the index version. But at least we support reading .gitattributes from index. Patches coming soon. -- Duy