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

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

I would like the checking configuration to be *versioned* along with the
code.  For example, suppose my project decides to enforce a rule that
all Python code needs to be indented with spaces.  It might be that not
all of our old code adheres to this rule, and that we only want to clean
up the code in master.

You want to sneak in a badly formatted code? Add an entry to the in-tree
attributes file to disable whitespace checking to cover that file!

So even though I agree with you that the check mechanism may need to be
aware of what revision it is checking and adjust which rules are applied
when checking the revision, I do not think using in-tree attribute file is
the right solution to that problem.