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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 35a29fd60c..970db0c732 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ path in question, and its parent directories (the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes` is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). +If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign +attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then +attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file. +Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other +repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into +`.gitattributes` files. + Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute for a path to `unspecified` state. This can be done by listing the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point `!`. |