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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-09-18 20:30:12 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-09-18 20:30:12 -0700
commit3791f77c28f233df121da2f83abf7eefc7b49b69 (patch)
tree8c50a58cf599933aa412a30d7cac615092d42aa0 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jc/diff-prefix' (diff)
parentMerge branch 'dp/maint-rebase-fix' into maint (diff)
downloadtgif-3791f77c28f233df121da2f83abf7eefc7b49b69.tar.xz
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: sha1_file: link() returns -1 on failure, not errno Make git archive respect core.autocrlf when creating zip format archives Add new test to demonstrate git archive core.autocrlf inconsistency gitweb: avoid warnings for commits without body Clarified gitattributes documentation regarding custom hunk header. git-svn: fix handling of even funkier branch names git-svn: Always create a new RA when calling do_switch for svn:// git-svn: factor out svnserve test code for later use diff/diff-files: do not use --cc too aggressively
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 6f3551dc82..e848c94397 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -270,27 +270,27 @@ See linkgit:git[1] for details.
Defining a custom hunk-header
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Each group of changes (called "hunk") in the textual diff output
+Each group of changes (called a "hunk") in the textual diff output
is prefixed with a line of the form:
@@ -k,l +n,m @@ TEXT
-The text is called 'hunk header', and by default a line that
-begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign is used,
-which matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default
-selection however is not suited for some contents, and you can
-use customized pattern to make a selection.
+This is called a 'hunk header'. The "TEXT" portion is by default a line
+that begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign; this
+matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default selection however
+is not suited for some contents, and you can use a customized pattern
+to make a selection.
-First in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute
+First, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute
for paths.
------------------------
*.tex diff=tex
------------------------
-Then, you would define "diff.tex.funcname" configuration to
+Then, you would define a "diff.tex.funcname" configuration to
specify a regular expression that matches a line that you would
-want to appear as the hunk header, like this:
+want to appear as the hunk header "TEXT", like this:
------------------------
[diff "tex"]