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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d82c0da2cf..e6d74e6ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -459,6 +459,12 @@ core.askpass:: prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. +core.attributesfile:: + In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and + '.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes + (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same + way as for `core.excludesfile`. + core.editor:: Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit messages by launching an editor uses the value of this diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e5a27d875e..ed03e2a4aa 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 |