Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > But this also reveals an interesting thing: even though we walk on a > tree, we check attributes from _worktree_ (and optionally fall back to > the index). This is how attributes are implemented since forever. I > think this is not a big deal if we communicate clearly with the user.
This is pretty much deliberately designed to be so; the set of the attributes in HEAD may be stale but by taking the contents from the working tree the user can work it around. > The main patch is the last one. The others are just to open a path to > pass "struct index_state *" down to tree_entry_interesting(). This may > become standard procedure because we don't want to stick the_index (or > the_repository) here and there. Yup.
