Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make Git respect changes to .gitattributes during checkout.

Kristian Amlie schrieb:

We do this by popping off elements on the attribute stack, until we
reach the level where a new .gitattributes was checked out. The next
time someone calls git_checkattr(), it will reconstruct the
attributes from that point.

...

+	gitattrlen = strlen(GITATTRIBUTES_FILE);
+	pathlen = strlen(path);
+	if (!strncmp(path + pathlen - gitattrlen, GITATTRIBUTES_FILE, gitattrlen)) {
+		/* Invalidate attributes if a new .gitattributes file was checked out. */

But if there was file .abc.txt that was checked out before .gitattributes
was checked out, then the new .gitattributes won't have been used for
.abc.txt, yet, right?

(Disclaimer: I didn't read the code, just your description and this comment.)

-- Hannes