Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] apply: reload .gitattributes after patching it

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

I spent some time digging into this and the attributes are reloaded
before each pick. This is because check_updates() called by
unpack_trees() calls git_attr_set_direction(GIT_ATTR_CHECKOUT) at the
start of the function and git_attr_set_direction(GIT_ATTR_CHECKIN) at
the end of the function. This has the effect of dropping all loaded
attributes as git_attr_set_direction() calls drop_all_attr_stacks()
when the direction is changed.

Ah, OK (and thanks), so it was working by accident ;-)