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index 80120ea14f..462b79c120 100644
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+++ 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.
@@ -925,7 +927,7 @@ file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in
macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to:
------------
-[attr]binary -diff -text
+[attr]binary -diff -merge -text
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