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authorLibravatar Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>2008-11-01 06:24:55 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-11-01 23:48:48 -0700
commit4f73e240f98c38e608afe68887639c6e63b1d18f (patch)
treea90c15a63375d6ad15e6728408f99b67246ad903
parentgit send-email: avoid leaking directory file descriptors. (diff)
downloadtgif-4f73e240f98c38e608afe68887639c6e63b1d18f.tar.xz
Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attribute
This makes attributes easier to find; before this patch some attributes had individual subsections, and some didn't. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 42776f089b..37fff208ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ with `crlf`, and then `ident` and fed to `filter`.
Generating diff text
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+`diff`
+^^^^^^
+
The attribute `diff` affects if 'git-diff' generates textual
patch for the path or just says `Binary files differ`. It also
can affect what line is shown on the hunk header `@@ -k,l +n,m @@`
@@ -323,6 +326,9 @@ patterns are available:
Performing a three-way merge
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+`merge`
+^^^^^^^
+
The attribute `merge` affects how three versions of a file is
merged when a file-level merge is necessary during `git merge`,
and other programs such as `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`.