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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-04-18 21:32:21 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-04-18 21:32:21 -0700
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parentMerge branch 'jk/maint-diffstat-overflow' (diff)
parentdocumentation: clarify direction of core.autocrlf (diff)
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* wp/doc-filter-direction: documentation: clarify direction of core.autocrlf
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@@ -198,11 +198,11 @@ core.quotepath::
core.autocrlf::
If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to
- `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
- writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to
+ `LF` when reading from the work tree, and convert in reverse when
+ writing to the work tree. The variable can be set to
'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
- reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
- `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered
+ reading from the work tree but files are written out to the work
+ tree with `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered
"text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on
the file's `crlf` attribute, or if `crlf` is unspecified,
based on the file's contents. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].