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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-07 22:51:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-07 22:51:14 -0700 |
| commit | aa41cf8f43687579363a2360795cac621d5254ed (patch) | |
| tree | cf46e92578852a6a36eaf359a517831fcf6379bb /Documentation/gitattributes.txt | |
| parent | acb0b7b01f64cf55d508b469eb2a351359c0cd82 (diff) | |
| parent | 20ff3ec28e1dc7b653bfdc7643cb55045d7913fc (diff) | |
| download | git-aa41cf8f43687579363a2360795cac621d5254ed.tar.gz | |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitattributes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 8af22eccac..82c10fa0fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ attribute. 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 |