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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 37fff208ff..c4aebc4351 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ attribute. When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest precedence), `.gitattributes` file in the same directory as the -path in question, and its parent directories (the further the -directory that contains `.gitattributes` is from the path in -question, the lower its precedence). +path in question, and its parent directories up to the toplevel of the +work tree (the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes` +is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 59321a2e82..7df3cef46f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the - higher level files (up to the root) being overridden by those in - lower level files down to the directory containing the file. + higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden + by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file. A project normally includes such `.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for |