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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index b8392fc330..9b41f81c06 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the repository. To control what line ending style is used in the working directory, use the `eol` attribute for a single file and the `core.eol` configuration variable for all text files. -Note that `core.autocrlf` overrides `core.eol` +Note that setting `core.autocrlf` to `true` or `input` overrides +`core.eol` (see the definitions of those options in +linkgit:git-config[1]). Set:: @@ -344,7 +346,9 @@ automatic line ending conversion based on your platform. Use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are UTF-16 little endian encoded without BOM and you want Git to use Windows line endings -in the working directory. Please note, it is highly recommended to +in the working directory (use `UTF-16-LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if +you want UTF-16 little endian with BOM). +Please note, it is highly recommended to explicitly define the line endings with `eol` if the `working-tree-encoding` attribute is used to avoid ambiguity. |