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authorLibravatar Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>2012-06-22 11:03:25 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-06-25 09:06:15 -0700
commit684e40f657ae004d60dfa833567bec4a409d78f9 (patch)
treebaeec2011d11b2529f572a2e6ac3651956a3d2d3 /Documentation
parentLet core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore (diff)
downloadtgif-684e40f657ae004d60dfa833567bec4a409d78f9.tar.xz
Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes
This gives the default value for the core.attributesfile variable following the exact same logic of the previous change for the core.excludesfile setting. Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 20e95318f3..db07459bbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -500,7 +500,9 @@ core.attributesfile::
In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
'.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes
(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
- way as for `core.excludesfile`.
+ way as for `core.excludesfile`. Its default value is
+ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not
+ set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 80120ea14f..e16f3e175b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
`.gitattributes` files. Attributes that should affect all repositories
for a single user should be placed in a file specified by the
`core.attributesfile` configuration option (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
+is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the
`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file.