From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] attr: add attr.tree for setting the treeish to read attributes from
Message-ID: <xmqqfs2qp3bg.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <446bce03a96836f35f94e9ef8548cf4a2b041ba8.1696443502.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>
> 44451a2e5e (attr: teach "--attr-source=<tree>" global option to "git",
> 2023-05-06) provided the ability to pass in a treeish as the attr
> source. In the context of serving Git repositories as bare repos like we
> do at GitLab however, it would be easier to point --attr-source to HEAD
> for all commands by setting it once.
>
> Add a new config attr.tree that allows this.

Hmph, I wonder if we want to go all the way to emulate how the
mailmap.blob was done, including

 - Default the value of attr.tree to HEAD in a bare repository;

 - Notice but ignore errors if the attr.tree does not point at a
   tree object, and pretend as if attr.tree specified an empty tree;

which does not seem to be in this patch.  With such a change,
probably we do not even need [2/2] of the series, perhaps?