On 02/06/2014 09:17 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > How do I use the only-look-at-HEAD mode from a non-bare repo? If I > want attributes with respect to some other commit instead of HEAD, is > there a syntax for that? The command doesn't seem to have been well > thought out. I agree that it would be nice for "git check-attr" to handle this case. Currently, I believe that one has to resort to a temporary index file via something like ( export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(mktemp)" git read-tree HEAD git check-attr --cached ... rm "$GIT_INDEX_FILE" ) Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- 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