Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:45:47AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Does the temporary checkout correctly apply the smudge filter and
crlf conversion, by the way?  If not, regardless of the topic in
this thread, that may want to be fixed as well.  I didn't check.

I've had a look at this and I think it will be much quicker for someone
more familiar with git-checkout-index to answer.

What git-difftool does is to create a temporary index containing only
the files that have changed (using git-update-index --index-info) and
then check this out with "git checkout-index --prefix=...".  So I think
this question boils down to: does git-checkout-index still read
.gitattributes from the working tree if given --prefix?


John