Re: Expected behaviour for pathspecs matching attributes in subdirectories

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 1:26 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +test_expect_success 'reading from .gitattributes in a subdirectory' '
> +       test_when_finished "rm -f sub/.gitattributes" &&
> +       test_write_lines "fileSetLabel label1" >sub/.gitattributes &&
> +
> +       git ls-files ":(attr:label1)" >actual &&
> +       test_write_lines "sub/fileSetLabel" >expect &&
> +       test_cmp expect actual &&
> +
> +       git ls-files ":(attr:label1)sub" >actual &&
> +       test_write_lines "sub/fileSetLabel" >expect &&
> +       test_cmp expect actual &&
> +
> +       git ls-files ":(attr:label1)sub/" >actual &&
> +       test_write_lines "sub/fileSetLabel" >expect &&
> +       test_cmp expect actual
> +'

Perhaps shave off a bit of cognitive overhead by using `echo` for
these rather than `test_write_lines`. For instance:

    echo "fileSetLabel label1" >sub/.gitattributes &&
    ...
    echo "sub/fileSetLabel" >expect &&

and so on.