Re: .gittattributes handling has deficiencies

[david@lang.hm]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2007, at 7:09 PM, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>> 
>>> On Oct 21, 2007, at 11:19 AM, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> But this is really hard to solve. We would need to compare
>>>>> attributes before and after for _all_ files that have attributes
>>>>> in one of the two commits and check if they changed. If so, we
>>>>> need to do a fresh checkout according to the new attributes.
>>>> if you know that you will get the new .gitattributes if it changes, setup 
>>>> a post-checkout hook to checkout everything if it has changed. it's far 
>>>> from ideal, but it should be a good, safe, first approximation.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That's not good enough. I'll stop using .gitattributes. I
>>> need to teach >40 devs how to use git on Windows. I only use
>>> features that work flawlessly. .gitattributes doesn't. It bit
>>> me twice now.
>> 
>> why would checking everything out if .gitattributes has changed not work? I 
>> can see why _not_ doing so would cause problems, and I freely acknowledge 
>> that this approach imposes a performance hit by checking everything out 
>> twice, but I don't see how it would not be reliable.
>
> What do you mean by "checking out everything"?
> Which command do you propose?

something like git checkout -f

David Lang