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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 47a621b733..37b3be8b72 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -432,7 +432,10 @@ several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e. if gitlink:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same -as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of gitlink:git-log[1]. +as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of gitlink:git-log[1], +except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$` +in the file. E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the +commit hash. GIT |