Taking into account default git attributes with fetch_attributes()

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#765 opened on Oct 2, 2018 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: git, ruby
Domain: devtools

Research direction

Start at the Rugged implementation of repo.fetch_attributes(path) and compare its attribute lookup with git check-attr and the linked gitattributes documentation. Trace whether the behavior belongs in Rugged or libgit2; done means core.attributesFile, $HOME/.config/git/attributes, and $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes are honored when fetching attributes.

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Description

Rugged doesn't seem to aknowledge core.attributesFile (falling back to $HOME/.config/git/attributes) or $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes as specified in the docs when fetching attributes for a path with repo.fetch_attributes(path).

git check-attr handles that so this is either on Rugged side or libgit2 (against which I don't have the competence to test).

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