+test_expect_success 'large attributes line ignores trailing content in tree' '
+ test_when_finished "rm .gitattributes" &&
+ # older versions of Git broke lines at 2048 bytes; the 2045 bytes
+ # of 0-padding here is accounting for the three bytes of "a 1", which
+ # would knock "trailing" to the "next" line, where it would be
+ # erroneously parsed.
+ printf "a %02045dtrailing attribute\n" 1 >.gitattributes &&
+ git check-attr --all trailing >actual 2>err &&
+ test_must_be_empty err &&
+ test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'large attributes line ignores trailing content in index' '
+ test_when_finished "git update-index --remove .gitattributes" &&
+ blob=$(printf "a %02045dtrailing attribute\n" 1 | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
+ git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644,$blob,.gitattributes &&
+ git check-attr --cached --all trailing >actual 2>err &&
+ test_must_be_empty err &&
+ test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+