Lasse Makholm noticed that running "git check-attr" from a place
totally unrelated to $GIT_DIR and $GIT_WORK_TREE does not give
expected results. I think it is because the command does not say it
wants to call setup_work_tree().
We still need to support use cases where only a bare repository is
involved, so unconditionally requiring a working tree would not work
well. Instead, make a call only in a non-bare repository.
We may want to see if we want to do a similar fix in the opposite
direction to check-ignore. The command unconditionally requires a
working tree, but it should be usable in a bare repository just like
check-attr attempts to be.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
builtin/check-attr.c | 3 +++
t/t0003-attributes.sh | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/check-attr.c b/builtin/check-attr.c
index 075d01d..f29d6c3 100644
--- a/builtin/check-attr.c
+++ b/builtin/check-attr.c
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ int cmd_check_attr(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
struct git_attr_check *check;
int cnt, i, doubledash, filei;
+ if (!is_bare_repository())
+ setup_work_tree();
+
git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, check_attr_options,
diff --git a/t/t0003-attributes.sh b/t/t0003-attributes.sh
index 0554b13..6e6aef5 100755
--- a/t/t0003-attributes.sh
+++ b/t/t0003-attributes.sh
@@ -196,6 +196,16 @@ test_expect_success 'root subdir attribute test' '
attr_check subdir/a/i unspecified
'
+test_expect_success 'using --git-dir and --work-tree' '
+ mkdir unreal real &&
+ git init real &&
+ echo "file test=in-real" >real/.gitattributes &&
+ (
+ cd unreal &&
+ attr_check file in-real "--git-dir ../real/.git --work-tree ../real"
+ )
+'
+
test_expect_success 'setup bare' '
git clone --bare . bare.git
'
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