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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-16 11:09:31 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-16 12:47:15 -0800
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Merge branch 'maint' to sync with 1.6.5.7
* maint: Git 1.6.5.7 worktree: don't segfault with an absolute pathspec without a work tree ignore unknown color configuration help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junk Illustrate "filter" attribute with an example
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@@ -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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^