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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c6cc7abe3e..35569a0a77 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ core.autocrlf:: reading from the filesystem but files are written out with `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on - the file's `crlf` attribute, or if `crlf` is unspecified, + the file's `text` attribute, or if `text` is unspecified, based on the file's contents. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. core.safecrlf:: @@ -943,13 +943,15 @@ gitcvs.logfile:: various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: - If true, the server will look up the `crlf` attribute for - files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If `crlf` is set, - the '-k' mode will be left blank, so cvs clients will - treat it as text. If `crlf` is explicitly unset, the file + If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion + attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If + the attributes force git to treat a file as text, + the '-k' mode will be left blank so cvs clients will + treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging - the client might otherwise do. If `crlf` is not specified, - then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. + the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow + the file type to be determined, then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is + used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. gitcvs.allbinary:: This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve |