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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index b8392fc330..4fb20cd0e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form: - pattern attr1 attr2 ... + pattern attr1 attr2 ... That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are @@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the repository. To control what line ending style is used in the working directory, use the `eol` attribute for a single file and the `core.eol` configuration variable for all text files. -Note that `core.autocrlf` overrides `core.eol` +Note that setting `core.autocrlf` to `true` or `input` overrides +`core.eol` (see the definitions of those options in +linkgit:git-config[1]). Set:: @@ -312,8 +314,8 @@ stored as UTF-8 internally. A client without `working-tree-encoding` support will checkout `foo.ps1` as UTF-8 encoded file. This will typically cause trouble for the users of this file. + -If a Git client, that does not support the `working-tree-encoding` -attribute, adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be +If a Git client that does not support the `working-tree-encoding` +attribute adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be stored "as-is" internally (in this example probably as UTF-16). A client with `working-tree-encoding` support will interpret the internal contents as UTF-8 and try to convert it to UTF-16 on checkout. @@ -344,7 +346,9 @@ automatic line ending conversion based on your platform. Use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are UTF-16 little endian encoded without BOM and you want Git to use Windows line endings -in the working directory. Please note, it is highly recommended to +in the working directory (use `UTF-16LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if +you want UTF-16 little endian with BOM). +Please note, it is highly recommended to explicitly define the line endings with `eol` if the `working-tree-encoding` attribute is used to avoid ambiguity. |