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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 |