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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 1f472cea59..5a45e51890 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -197,6 +197,25 @@ intent is that if someone unsets the filter driver definition, or does not have the appropriate filter program, the project should still be usable. +For example, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `filter` +attribute for paths. + +------------------------ +*.c filter=indent +------------------------ + +Then you would define a "filter.indent.clean" and "filter.indent.smudge" +configuration in your .git/config to specify a pair of commands to +modify the contents of C programs when the source files are checked +in ("clean" is run) and checked out (no change is made because the +command is "cat"). + +------------------------ +[filter "indent"] + clean = indent + smudge = cat +------------------------ + Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |