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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index b40068bdfd..807577a59f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Set to string value "auto":: When `text` is set to "auto", the path is marked for automatic 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 commited with CRLF, no conversion is done. + When the file has been committed with CRLF, no conversion is done. Unspecified:: @@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |