On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 06:17:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Yeah, you're right. I forgot about attr.tree (does not seem to be > > documented, by the way) > > We do have an entry in Documentation/config/attr.txt that describes > the three; I simply assumed it is not documented as I didn't see it > mentioned in Documentation/git.txt where --attr-source & > GIT_ATTR_SOURCE are described. > > We may want to add something like this, perhaps? > > ----- >8 ----- > Subject: doc: give attr.tree a bit more visibility Yeah, that looks good to me. I recall that the performance of attr.tree is not great for _some_ commands (like pack-objects). So it's perhaps reasonable to use for single commands like "git diff" but not to set in your on-disk config. It's possible we'd want to warn people about that before advertising it more widely? I dunno. -Peff
