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

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 22, 2011, 15:41 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Where does "git show --check" read its gitattributes (i.e.,
> "whitespace") from?

It looks like builtin_checkdiff (diff.c) calls whitespace_rule (ws.c) which in turn calls git_check_attr (attr.c) which, in a bare repo, considers $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes, core.attributesfile and $GIT_DIR/info/attributes, falling back to the default whitespace rule of trailing_space, space_before_tab, and tab-width of 8 (WS_DEFAULT_RULE in cache.h).

Thank you for this thread. I was under the illusion that diff-tree --check considered in-tree .gitattributes, but the code seems to indicate otherwise. :-(

j.
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