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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	me@ttaylorr.com
Subject: Re: Merge conflicts in .gitattributes can cause trouble
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:51:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvawqvp6y.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610171803400.197091@virtualbox> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:11:00 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> I would vote for:
>
> 4. We keep letting Git read in the *current* version of .gitattributes
>    *before* the merge, and apply those attributes while performing the
>    merge.

Even though this needs a major surgery to the way the attr subsystem
reads from these files, I think it is conceptually the cleanest.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04 10:19 Merge conflicts in .gitattributes can cause trouble Lars Schneider
2016-10-04 11:26 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-17 16:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-17 17:51   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-18 12:39     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-18 17:30       ` Junio C Hamano

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