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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-11 01:54:25 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-11 01:54:33 +0400 |
| commit | 8d47dc7f2ddaa70b388fb3f739b9339de826a7fb (patch) | |
| tree | 7de3c16ca8a770f90ecb63b3fe75b39a75bef097 /Documentation/gitattributes.txt | |
| parent | d5e7c0c21c905bfb71fba13dc9dbed431c53a37b (diff) | |
| parent | 40701adbcbbc1e3e4485562a36343f4781e62be5 (diff) | |
Sync with maint
* maint:
attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 99ed04d7ab..ba02d4de59 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest precedence). +When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the +path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process, +`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the +working tree is used as a fall-back. + If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow for that repository), then |