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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 643c1ba929..7aff940202 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other 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]). +`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 @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ 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` Set:: @@ -130,8 +131,9 @@ Unset:: Set to string value "auto":: When `text` is set to "auto", the path is marked for automatic - end-of-line normalization. If Git decides that the content is - text, its line endings are normalized to LF on checkin. + end-of-line conversion. If Git decides that the content is + text, its line endings are converted to LF on checkin. + When the file has been committed with CRLF, no conversion is done. Unspecified:: @@ -146,7 +148,7 @@ unspecified. ^^^^^ This attribute sets a specific line-ending style to be used in the -working directory. It enables end-of-line normalization without any +working directory. It enables end-of-line conversion without any content checks, effectively setting the `text` attribute. Set to string value "crlf":: @@ -180,60 +182,51 @@ While Git normally leaves file contents alone, it can be configured to normalize line endings to LF in the repository and, optionally, to convert them to CRLF when files are checked out. -Here is an example that will make Git normalize .txt, .vcproj and .sh -files, ensure that .vcproj files have CRLF and .sh files have LF in -the working directory, and prevent .jpg files from being normalized -regardless of their content. - ------------------------- -*.txt text -*.vcproj eol=crlf -*.sh eol=lf -*.jpg -text ------------------------- - -Other source code management systems normalize all text files in their -repositories, and there are two ways to enable similar automatic -normalization in Git. - If you simply want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory regardless of the repository you are working with, you can set the -config variable "core.autocrlf" without changing any attributes. +config variable "core.autocrlf" without using any attributes. ------------------------ [core] autocrlf = true ------------------------ -This does not force normalization of all text files, but does ensure +This does not force normalization of text files, but does ensure that text files that you introduce to the repository have their line endings normalized to LF when they are added, and that files that are already normalized in the repository stay normalized. -If you want to interoperate with a source code management system that -enforces end-of-line normalization, or you simply want all text files -in your repository to be normalized, you should instead set the `text` -attribute to "auto" for _all_ files. +If you want to ensure that text files that any contributor introduces to +the repository have their line endings normalized, you can set the +`text` attribute to "auto" for _all_ files. ------------------------ * text=auto ------------------------ -This ensures that all files that Git considers to be text will have -normalized (LF) line endings in the repository. The `core.eol` -configuration variable controls which line endings Git will use for -normalized files in your working directory; the default is to use the -native line ending for your platform, or CRLF if `core.autocrlf` is -set. +The attributes allow a fine-grained control, how the line endings +are converted. +Here is an example that will make Git normalize .txt, .vcproj and .sh +files, ensure that .vcproj files have CRLF and .sh files have LF in +the working directory, and prevent .jpg files from being normalized +regardless of their content. + +------------------------ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.vcproj text eol=crlf +*.sh text eol=lf +*.jpg -text +------------------------ + +NOTE: When `text=auto` conversion is enabled in a cross-platform +project using push and pull to a central repository the text files +containing CRLFs should be normalized. -NOTE: When `text=auto` normalization is enabled in an existing -repository, any text files containing CRLFs should be normalized. If -they are not they will be normalized the next time someone tries to -change them, causing unfortunate misattribution. From a clean working -directory: +From a clean working directory: ------------------------------------------------- -$ echo "* text=auto" >>.gitattributes +$ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ rm .git/index # Remove the index to force Git to $ git reset # re-scan the working directory $ git status # Show files that will be normalized @@ -374,6 +367,11 @@ substitution. For example: smudge = git-p4-filter --smudge %f ------------------------ +Note that "%f" is the name of the path that is being worked on. Depending +on the version that is being filtered, the corresponding file on disk may +not exist, or may have different contents. So, smudge and clean commands +should not try to access the file on disk, but only act as filters on the +content provided to them on standard input. Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -440,8 +438,8 @@ Unspecified:: A path to which the `diff` attribute is unspecified first gets its contents inspected, and if it looks like - text, it is treated as text. Otherwise it would - generate `Binary files differ`. + text and is smaller than core.bigFileThreshold, it is treated + as text. Otherwise it would generate `Binary files differ`. String:: @@ -525,8 +523,12 @@ patterns are available: - `csharp` suitable for source code in the C# language. +- `css` suitable for cascading style sheets. + - `fortran` suitable for source code in the Fortran language. +- `fountain` suitable for Fountain documents. + - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents. - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language. @@ -665,7 +667,7 @@ data by examining the beginning of the contents. However, sometimes you may want to override its decision, either because a blob contains binary data later in the file, or because the content, while technically composed of text characters, is opaque to a human reader. For example, -many postscript files contain only ascii characters, but produce noisy +many postscript files contain only ASCII characters, but produce noisy and meaningless diffs. The simplest way to mark a file as binary is to unset the diff @@ -680,7 +682,7 @@ patch, if binary patches are enabled) instead of a regular diff. However, one may also want to specify other diff driver attributes. For example, you might want to use `textconv` to convert postscript files to -an ascii representation for human viewing, but otherwise treat them as +an ASCII representation for human viewing, but otherwise treat them as binary files. You cannot specify both `-diff` and `diff=ps` attributes. The solution is to use the `diff.*.binary` config option: @@ -774,7 +776,7 @@ To define a custom merge driver `filfre`, add a section to your ---------------------------------------------------------------- [merge "filfre"] name = feel-free merge driver - driver = filfre %O %A %B + driver = filfre %O %A %B %L %P recursive = binary ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -800,6 +802,9 @@ merge between common ancestors, when there are more than one. When left unspecified, the driver itself is used for both internal merge and the final merge. +The merge driver can learn the pathname in which the merged result +will be stored via placeholder `%P`. + `conflict-marker-size` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |