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authorLibravatar Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2011-08-04 06:36:17 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-04 15:53:16 -0700
commit352404ac4ccab144cd866b1f24c90b8f29ca33c2 (patch)
tree26834953b4e6c72abaa9e1e6d4e1da42b10a191d /Documentation/technical
parentgit-check-attr: Add tests of command-line parsing (diff)
downloadtgif-352404ac4ccab144cd866b1f24c90b8f29ca33c2.tar.xz
Provide access to the name attribute of git_attr
It will be present in any likely future reimplementation, and its availability simplifies other code. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Data Structure
An attribute is an opaque object that is identified by its name.
Pass the name to `git_attr()` function to obtain the object of
this type. The internal representation of this structure is
- of no interest to the calling programs.
+ of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the
+ attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`.
`struct git_attr_check`::