On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 3:49 PM John Cai via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The motivation for 44451a2e5e (attr: teach "--attr-source=<tree>" global
> option to "git" , 2023-05-06), was to make it possible to use
> gitattributes with bare repositories.
>
> To make it easier to read gitattributes in bare repositories however,
> let's just make HEAD:.gitattributes the default. This is in line with
> how mailmap works, 8c473cecfd (mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare
> repositories, 2012-12-13).
>
> Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/t/t0003-attributes.sh b/t/t0003-attributes.sh
> @@ -342,6 +342,20 @@ test_expect_success 'bare repository: check that .gitattribute is ignored' '
> +test_expect_success 'bare repo defaults to reading .gitattributes from HEAD' '
> + test_when_finished rm -rf test bare_with_gitattribute &&
> + git init test &&
> + (
> + cd test &&
> + test_commit gitattributes .gitattributes "f/path test=val"
> + ) &&
Not at all worth a reroll, rather just for future reference... these
days test_commit() supports -C, so the same could be accomplished
without the subshell or `cd`:
test_commit -C test gitattributes .gitattributes "f/path test=val" &&
> + git clone --bare test bare_with_gitattribute &&
> + echo "f/path: test: val" >expect &&
> + git -C bare_with_gitattribute check-attr test -- f/path >actual &&
> + test_cmp expect actual
> +'
