From: Sean MacLennan <seanm@seanm.ca>
To: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request: a way to ignore .gitattributes
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:19:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220313121951.093495fb@zonker.seanm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01ab01d83656$071d7cd0$15587670$@nexbridge.com>
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:13:26 -0500
<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
> These may seem a little off the wall, but:
> 1. Could you use a clean/smudge approach to mess with your bad
> .gitattributes file before it gets put down on disk? I realize that
> registering the filter might not be possible given that you need to
> muck with .gitattributes to do it, but if you have any control at all
> and can get the filter in, perhaps that might be a way to clean up
> the bad .gitattributes file.
I have no access to the servers.
> 2. What about a post-checkout hook that fixes .gitattributes and then
> does an update-index --assume-unchanged on it. This is under the
> assumption that you will never change .gitattributes in your clone.
That seems to work. I did not know about update-index.
> My $0.02,
> --Randall
Cheers,
Sean
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-13 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-12 18:07 Request: a way to ignore .gitattributes Sean MacLennan
2022-03-12 21:13 ` rsbecker
2022-03-12 23:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-13 16:19 ` Sean MacLennan [this message]
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