Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> I think we just need to have callers of grep_source_init provide us with >>> the actual pathname (or NULL, in the case of GREP_SOURCE_BUF). That is >>> where the information is lost. >> >> Yes. I agree that is the right approach. > > Passing full path this way means prepare_attr_stack has to walk back > to top directory for every files (even in the same directory). If > .gitattributes are loaded while git-grep traverses the tree, then it > can preload attr once per directory. But Jeff's approach looks > simpler. Why can't you do both? That is, to build a full path as you descend, and read per-directory .gitattributes as you go? Confused... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html