From 20ff3ec28e1dc7b653bfdc7643cb55045d7913fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Merrill Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:03:36 -0400 Subject: Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files. Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/gitattributes.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 37fff208ff..c4aebc4351 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 -- cgit v1.2.1