git/Documentation/config/attr.txt
John Cai 9f9c40cf34 attr: add attr.tree for setting the treeish to read attributes from
44451a2 (attr: teach "--attr-source=<tree>" global option to "git",
2023-05-06) provided the ability to pass in a treeish as the attr
source. In the context of serving Git repositories as bare repos like we
do at GitLab however, it would be easier to point --attr-source to HEAD
for all commands by setting it once.

Add a new config attr.tree that allows this.

Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-13 11:43:29 -07:00

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attr.tree::
A reference to a tree in the repository from which to read attributes,
instead of the `.gitattributes` file in the working tree. In a bare
repository, this defaults to `HEAD:.gitattributes`. If the value does
not resolve to a valid tree object, an empty tree is used instead.
When the `GIT_ATTR_SOURCE` environment variable or `--attr-source`
command line option are used, this configuration variable has no effect.