Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?,.gitacls? etc.

On 9/4/07, Jan Hudec [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:49:47 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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Here is the problem: we need to apply crlf attributes to a file. We
could have .gitattributes both in the index and in the worktree.
Which one do we use?
In general .gitattributes file could be (U)nchanged, (C)hanged, (NP)
NotPresent in each place.

I do not see these cases.  You can have these cases, basically:

- .gitattributes in worktree (then it does not matter what else we have),
- .gitattributes not in the worktree, but in the index (then that is taken)

In the latter case, there could be conflicts _in_ .gitattributes, in which
case those .gitattributes are ignored.

I do not see any problem with that.

I do.

IMNSHO it should be the other way around:
 .gitattributes in index, than index version is used.
 .gitattributes not in index, but in worktree, than that tree version is used.

Consider scenario when my commit #1 has .gitattributes:
    a.txt -nocrlf
and file a.txt
You pull it.
Now I make some changes to a.txt and realize that a.txt *is* a text
file now. I remove the entry from .gitattributes and notice that it
becomes empty. So I just remove .gitattributes file all together. It
becomes commit#2.
Now you pull it again. There *is* .gitattributes in local directory,
but index does not have it (because I've removed it on purpose). What
should happen?
I assert that since index does not have .gitattributes the one from
local directory should not be used.

Think about dedicated build machine scenario: I have a machine that
always does sync + build. After every sync the local directory should
always be identical to what-was-committed.
With every commit 3 things could happen: .gitattributes could appear,
disappear or change. In every case "build machine" must produce the
exact copy of what-was-checked-in. The only way I see this happening
is by using *only* index version of .gitattributes when files are
moved index -> workspace.

A similar reasoning works for other direction (workplace -> index).
-- 
- Dmitry