From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:41:34 GMT
Subject: Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?
Message-ID: <CAG+J_DxtCx6-RKWLKFy+V7tOtu7UnUrke7iN8gNdGiY-sC52sQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E7AF1AE.5030005@alum.mit.edu>

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.