'
+test_expect_success 'Checking attributes in the XDG attributes file' '
+ echo foo >f &&
+ git check-attr -a f >actual &&
+ test_line_count -eq 0 actual &&
+ echo "f attr_f" >"$HOME"/.config/git/attributes &&
+ echo "f: attr_f: set" >expected &&
+ git check-attr -a f >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'Checking attributes in both XDG and local attributes files' '
+ echo "f -attr_f" >.gitattributes &&
+ echo "f: attr_f: unset" >expected &&
+ git check-attr -a f >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'Checking attributes in a non-XDG global attributes file' '
+ test_might_fail rm .gitattributes &&
+ echo "f attr_f=test" >"$HOME"/my_gitattributes &&
+ git config core.attributesfile "$HOME"/my_gitattributes &&
+ echo "f: attr_f: test" >expected &&
+ git check-attr -a f >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'write: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig doesn'\''t' '
+ mkdir -p "$HOME"/.config/git &&
+ >"$HOME"/.config/git/config &&
+ test_might_fail rm "$HOME"/.gitconfig &&
+ git config --global user.name "write_config" &&
+ echo "[user]" >expected &&
+ echo " name = write_config" >>expected &&
+ test_cmp expected "$HOME"/.config/git/config
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'write: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
+ >"$HOME"/.gitconfig &&
+ git config --global user.name "write_gitconfig" &&
+ echo "[user]" >expected &&
+ echo " name = write_gitconfig" >>expected &&
+ test_cmp expected "$HOME"/.gitconfig
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'write: ~/.config/git/ exists and config file doesn'\''t' '
+ test_might_fail rm "$HOME"/.gitconfig &&
+ test_might_fail rm "$HOME"/.config/git/config &&
+ git config --global user.name "write_gitconfig" &&
+ echo "[user]" >expected &&
+ echo " name = write_gitconfig" >>expected &&
+ test_cmp expected "$HOME"/.gitconfig
+'
+
+
test_done