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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-07 22:51:14 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-07 22:51:14 -0700
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Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1
* maint-1.6.0: Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given. git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
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When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git
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 (the further the
-directory that contains `.gitattributes` is from the path in
-question, the lower its precedence).
+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).
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