Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] wrote:

Where does "git show --check" read its gitattributes (i.e.,
"whitespace") from?

It looks like builtin_checkdiff (diff.c) calls whitespace_rule (ws.c)
which in turn calls git_check_attr (attr.c) which, in a bare repo,
considers $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes, core.attributesfile and
$GIT_DIR/info/attributes, falling back to the default whitespace rule
of trailing_space, space_before_tab, and tab-width of 8
(WS_DEFAULT_RULE in cache.h).

Thank you for this thread. I was under the illusion that diff-tree
--check considered in-tree .gitattributes, but the code seems to
indicate otherwise. :-(

j.