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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 99ed04d7ab..ba02d4de59 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest precedence). +When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the +path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process, +`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the +working tree is used as a fall-back. + If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow for that repository), then |