Re: using tree as attribute source is slow, was Re: Help troubleshoot performance regression cloning with depth: git 2.44 vs git 2.42

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 2, 2024, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfrv0ds7f.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZjPOd83r+tkmsv3o@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> Instead, this patch changes the behavior to only fallback to "HEAD" in
> bare repositories from check-attr, but leaves pack-objects, archive, and
> all other builtins alone.

I thought the whole point of the exercise was to allow server-side (which typically is bare and cannot use anything from the working tree) to pay attention to the attributes. This patch rips that out and piles even more new and unproven code on top? I am not sure.