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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e5a27d875e..c80ca5da43 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -62,14 +62,21 @@ consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest precedence), `.gitattributes` file in the same directory as the path in question, and its parent directories up to the toplevel of the work tree (the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes` -is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). +is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally +global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest +precedence). If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign -attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then +attributes to files that are particular to +one user's workflow for that repository), then attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file. Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into -`.gitattributes` files. +`.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]). +Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the +`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file. Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute for a path to `unspecified` state. This can be done by listing @@ -477,6 +484,8 @@ patterns are available: - `csharp` suitable for source code in the C# language. +- `fortran` suitable for source code in the Fortran language. + - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents. - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language. |