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-rw-r--r--doc/api/README.md5
-rw-r--r--doc/api/projects.md2
-rw-r--r--doc/api/templates/gitignores.md579
-rw-r--r--doc/api/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls.md120
-rw-r--r--doc/api/templates/licenses.md (renamed from doc/api/licenses.md)8
-rw-r--r--doc/api/users.md146
-rw-r--r--doc/api/version.md23
-rw-r--r--doc/user/project/git_attributes.md22
9 files changed, 900 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index 42ee44f83dc..7e3d9b00900 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
- [Webhooks](web_hooks/web_hooks.md) Let GitLab notify you when new code has been pushed to your project.
- [Workflow](workflow/README.md) Using GitLab functionality and importing projects from GitHub and SVN.
- [University](university/README.md) Learn Git and GitLab through videos and courses.
+- [Git Attributes](user/project/git_attributes.md) Managing Git attributes using a `.gitattributes` file.
## Administrator documentation
diff --git a/doc/api/README.md b/doc/api/README.md
index 9e907689c80..3fbe5197a21 100644
--- a/doc/api/README.md
+++ b/doc/api/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ following locations:
- [Commits](commits.md)
- [Deployments](deployments.md)
- [Deploy Keys](deploy_keys.md)
+- [Gitignores templates](templates/gitignores.md)
+- [GitLab CI Config templates](templates/gitlab_ci_ymls.md)
- [Groups](groups.md)
- [Group Access Requests](access_requests.md)
- [Group Members](members.md)
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ following locations:
- [Labels](labels.md)
- [Merge Requests](merge_requests.md)
- [Milestones](milestones.md)
-- [Open source license templates](licenses.md)
+- [Open source license templates](templates/licenses.md)
- [Namespaces](namespaces.md)
- [Notes](notes.md) (comments)
- [Notification settings](notification_settings.md)
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ following locations:
- [Todos](todos.md)
- [Users](users.md)
- [Validate CI configuration](ci/lint.md)
+- [Version](version.md)
### Internal CI API
diff --git a/doc/api/projects.md b/doc/api/projects.md
index 27436a052da..f96bf7f6d63 100644
--- a/doc/api/projects.md
+++ b/doc/api/projects.md
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Parameters:
### Get project events
Get the events for the specified project.
-Sorted from newest to latest
+Sorted from newest to oldest
```
GET /projects/:id/events
diff --git a/doc/api/templates/gitignores.md b/doc/api/templates/gitignores.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8235be92b12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/api/templates/gitignores.md
@@ -0,0 +1,579 @@
+# Gitignores
+
+## List gitignore templates
+
+Get all gitignore templates.
+
+```
+GET /templates/gitignores
+```
+
+```bash
+curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/templates/gitignores
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+[
+ {
+ "name": "AppEngine"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Laravel"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Elisp"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SketchUp"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Ada"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Ruby"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Kohana"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Nanoc"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Erlang"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "OCaml"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Lithium"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Fortran"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Scala"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Node"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Fancy"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Perl"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Zephir"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "WordPress"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Symfony"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "FuelPHP"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "DM"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Sdcc"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Rust"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "C"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Umbraco"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Actionscript"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Android"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Grails"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Composer"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ExpressionEngine"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Gcov"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Qt"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Phalcon"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ArchLinuxPackages"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "TeX"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SCons"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Lilypond"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CommonLisp"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Rails"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Mercury"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Magento"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ChefCookbook"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "GitBook"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "C++"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Eagle"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Go"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "OpenCart"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Scheme"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Typo3"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SeamGen"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Swift"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Elm"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Unity"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Agda"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CUDA"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "VVVV"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Finale"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "LemonStand"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Textpattern"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Julia"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Packer"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Scrivener"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Dart"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Plone"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Jekyll"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Xojo"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "LabVIEW"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Autotools"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "KiCad"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Prestashop"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ROS"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Smalltalk"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "GWT"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "OracleForms"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SugarCRM"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Nim"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SymphonyCMS"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Maven"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CFWheels"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Python"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ZendFramework"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CakePHP"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Concrete5"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "PlayFramework"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Terraform"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Elixir"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CMake"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Joomla"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Coq"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Delphi"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Haskell"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Yii"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Java"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "UnrealEngine"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "AppceleratorTitanium"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CraftCMS"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ForceDotCom"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ExtJs"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "MetaProgrammingSystem"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "D"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Objective-C"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "RhodesRhomobile"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "R"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "EPiServer"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Yeoman"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "VisualStudio"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Processing"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Leiningen"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Stella"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Opa"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Drupal"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "TurboGears2"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Idris"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Jboss"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CodeIgniter"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Qooxdoo"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Waf"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Sass"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Lua"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Clojure"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "IGORPro"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Gradle"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Archives"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SynopsysVCS"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Ninja"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Tags"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "OSX"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Dreamweaver"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CodeKit"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "NotepadPP"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "VisualStudioCode"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Mercurial"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "BricxCC"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "DartEditor"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Eclipse"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Cloud9"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "TortoiseGit"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "NetBeans"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "GPG"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Espresso"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Redcar"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Xcode"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Matlab"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "LyX"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SlickEdit"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Dropbox"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "CVS"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Calabash"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "JDeveloper"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Vagrant"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "IPythonNotebook"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "TextMate"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Ensime"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "WebMethods"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "VirtualEnv"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Emacs"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Momentics"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "JetBrains"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SublimeText"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Kate"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "ModelSim"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Redis"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "KDevelop4"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Bazaar"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Linux"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Windows"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "XilinxISE"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Lazarus"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "EiffelStudio"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Anjuta"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Vim"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Otto"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "MicrosoftOffice"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "LibreOffice"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SBT"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "MonoDevelop"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "SVN"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "FlexBuilder"
+ }
+]
+```
+
+## Single gitignore template
+
+Get a single gitignore template.
+
+```
+GET /templates/gitignores/:key
+```
+
+| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
+| ---------- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
+| `key` | string | yes | The key of the gitignore template |
+
+```bash
+curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/templates/gitignores/Ruby
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+{
+ "name": "Ruby",
+ "content": "*.gem\n*.rbc\n/.config\n/coverage/\n/InstalledFiles\n/pkg/\n/spec/reports/\n/spec/examples.txt\n/test/tmp/\n/test/version_tmp/\n/tmp/\n\n# Used by dotenv library to load environment variables.\n# .env\n\n## Specific to RubyMotion:\n.dat*\n.repl_history\nbuild/\n*.bridgesupport\nbuild-iPhoneOS/\nbuild-iPhoneSimulator/\n\n## Specific to RubyMotion (use of CocoaPods):\n#\n# We recommend against adding the Pods directory to your .gitignore. However\n# you should judge for yourself, the pros and cons are mentioned at:\n# https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-check-the-pods-directory-into-source-control\n#\n# vendor/Pods/\n\n## Documentation cache and generated files:\n/.yardoc/\n/_yardoc/\n/doc/\n/rdoc/\n\n## Environment normalization:\n/.bundle/\n/vendor/bundle\n/lib/bundler/man/\n\n# for a library or gem, you might want to ignore these files since the code is\n# intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:\n# Gemfile.lock\n# .ruby-version\n# .ruby-gemset\n\n# unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:\n.rvmrc\n"
+}
+```
diff --git a/doc/api/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls.md b/doc/api/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e120016fbe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/api/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls.md
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+# GitLab CI YMLs
+
+## List GitLab CI YML templates
+
+Get all GitLab CI YML templates.
+
+```
+GET /templates/gitlab_ci_ymls
+```
+
+```bash
+curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+[
+ {
+ "name": "C++"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Docker"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Elixir"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "LaTeX"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Grails"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Rust"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Nodejs"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Ruby"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Scala"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Maven"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Harp"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Pelican"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Hyde"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Nanoc"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Octopress"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "JBake"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "HTML"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Hugo"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Metalsmith"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Hexo"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Lektor"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Doxygen"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Brunch"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Jekyll"
+ },
+ {
+ "name": "Middleman"
+ }
+]
+```
+
+## Single GitLab CI YML template
+
+Get a single GitLab CI YML template.
+
+```
+GET /templates/gitlab_ci_ymls/:key
+```
+
+| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
+| ---------- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
+| `key` | string | yes | The key of the GitLab CI YML template |
+
+```bash
+curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls/Ruby
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+{
+ "name": "Ruby",
+ "content": "# This file is a template, and might need editing before it works on your project.\n# Official language image. Look for the different tagged releases at:\n# https://hub.docker.com/r/library/ruby/tags/\nimage: \"ruby:2.3\"\n\n# Pick zero or more services to be used on all builds.\n# Only needed when using a docker container to run your tests in.\n# Check out: http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/docker/using_docker_images.html#what-is-service\nservices:\n - mysql:latest\n - redis:latest\n - postgres:latest\n\nvariables:\n POSTGRES_DB: database_name\n\n# Cache gems in between builds\ncache:\n paths:\n - vendor/ruby\n\n# This is a basic example for a gem or script which doesn't use\n# services such as redis or postgres\nbefore_script:\n - ruby -v # Print out ruby version for debugging\n # Uncomment next line if your rails app needs a JS runtime:\n # - apt-get update -q && apt-get install nodejs -yqq\n - gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc # Bundler is not installed with the image\n - bundle install -j $(nproc) --path vendor # Install dependencies into ./vendor/ruby\n\n# Optional - Delete if not using `rubocop`\nrubocop:\n script:\n - rubocop\n\nrspec:\n script:\n - rspec spec\n\nrails:\n variables:\n DATABASE_URL: \"postgresql://postgres:postgres@postgres:5432/$POSTGRES_DB\"\n script:\n - bundle exec rake db:migrate\n - bundle exec rake db:seed\n - bundle exec rake test\n"
+}
+```
diff --git a/doc/api/licenses.md b/doc/api/templates/licenses.md
index ed26d1fb7fb..ae7218cf1bd 100644
--- a/doc/api/licenses.md
+++ b/doc/api/templates/licenses.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
Get all license templates.
```
-GET /licenses
+GET /templates/licenses
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ GET /licenses
| `popular` | boolean | no | If passed, returns only popular licenses |
```bash
-curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/licenses?popular=1
+curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/templates/licenses?popular=1
```
Example response:
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Get a single license template. You can pass parameters to replace the license
placeholder.
```
-GET /licenses/:key
+GET /templates/licenses/:key
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ If you omit the `fullname` parameter but authenticate your request, the name of
the authenticated user will be used to replace the copyright holder placeholder.
```bash
-curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/licenses/mit?project=My+Cool+Project
+curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/templates/licenses/mit?project=My+Cool+Project
```
Example response:
diff --git a/doc/api/users.md b/doc/api/users.md
index 9be4f2e6ec3..a52b2d51d78 100644
--- a/doc/api/users.md
+++ b/doc/api/users.md
@@ -627,3 +627,149 @@ Parameters:
Will return `200 OK` on success, `404 User Not Found` is user cannot be found or
`403 Forbidden` when trying to unblock a user blocked by LDAP synchronization.
+
+### Get user contribution events
+
+Get the contribution events for the specified user, sorted from newest to oldest.
+
+```
+GET /users/:id/events
+```
+
+Parameters:
+
+| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `id` | integer | yes | The ID of the user |
+
+```bash
+curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/user/:id/events
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+[
+ {
+ "title": null,
+ "project_id": 15,
+ "action_name": "closed",
+ "target_id": 830,
+ "target_type": "Issue",
+ "author_id": 1,
+ "data": null,
+ "target_title": "Public project search field",
+ "author": {
+ "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "username": "root",
+ "id": 1,
+ "state": "active",
+ "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+ "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+ },
+ "author_username": "root"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": null,
+ "project_id": 15,
+ "action_name": "opened",
+ "target_id": null,
+ "target_type": null,
+ "author_id": 1,
+ "author": {
+ "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "username": "root",
+ "id": 1,
+ "state": "active",
+ "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+ "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+ },
+ "author_username": "john",
+ "data": {
+ "before": "50d4420237a9de7be1304607147aec22e4a14af7",
+ "after": "c5feabde2d8cd023215af4d2ceeb7a64839fc428",
+ "ref": "refs/heads/master",
+ "user_id": 1,
+ "user_name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "repository": {
+ "name": "gitlabhq",
+ "url": "git@dev.gitlab.org:gitlab/gitlabhq.git",
+ "description": "GitLab: self hosted Git management software. \r\nDistributed under the MIT License.",
+ "homepage": "https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlabhq"
+ },
+ "commits": [
+ {
+ "id": "c5feabde2d8cd023215af4d2ceeb7a64839fc428",
+ "message": "Add simple search to projects in public area",
+ "timestamp": "2013-05-13T18:18:08+00:00",
+ "url": "https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlabhq/commit/c5feabde2d8cd023215af4d2ceeb7a64839fc428",
+ "author": {
+ "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "email": "dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com"
+ }
+ }
+ ],
+ "total_commits_count": 1
+ },
+ "target_title": null
+ },
+ {
+ "title": null,
+ "project_id": 15,
+ "action_name": "closed",
+ "target_id": 840,
+ "target_type": "Issue",
+ "author_id": 1,
+ "data": null,
+ "target_title": "Finish & merge Code search PR",
+ "author": {
+ "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "username": "root",
+ "id": 1,
+ "state": "active",
+ "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+ "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+ },
+ "author_username": "root"
+ },
+ {
+ "title": null,
+ "project_id": 15,
+ "action_name": "commented on",
+ "target_id": 1312,
+ "target_type": "Note",
+ "author_id": 1,
+ "data": null,
+ "target_title": null,
+ "created_at": "2015-12-04T10:33:58.089Z",
+ "note": {
+ "id": 1312,
+ "body": "What an awesome day!",
+ "attachment": null,
+ "author": {
+ "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "username": "root",
+ "id": 1,
+ "state": "active",
+ "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+ "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+ },
+ "created_at": "2015-12-04T10:33:56.698Z",
+ "system": false,
+ "upvote": false,
+ "downvote": false,
+ "noteable_id": 377,
+ "noteable_type": "Issue"
+ },
+ "author": {
+ "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+ "username": "root",
+ "id": 1,
+ "state": "active",
+ "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+ "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+ },
+ "author_username": "root"
+ }
+]
+```
diff --git a/doc/api/version.md b/doc/api/version.md
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+# Version API
+
+>**Note:** This feature was introduced in GitLab 8.13
+
+Retrieve version information for this GitLab instance. Responds `200 OK` for
+authenticated users.
+
+```
+GET /version
+```
+
+```bash
+curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/version
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+{
+ "version": "8.13.0-pre",
+ "revision": "4e963fe"
+}
+```
diff --git a/doc/user/project/git_attributes.md b/doc/user/project/git_attributes.md
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+# Git Attributes
+
+GitLab supports defining custom [Git attributes][gitattributes] such as what
+files to treat as binary, and what language to use for syntax highlighting
+diffs.
+
+To define these attributes, create a file called `.gitattributes` in the root
+directory of your repository and push it to the default branch of your project.
+
+## Encoding Requirements
+
+The `.gitattributes` file _must_ be encoded in UTF-8 and _must not_ contain a
+Byte Order Mark. If a different encoding is used, the file's contents will be
+ignored.
+
+## Syntax Highlighting
+
+The `.gitattributes` file can be used to define which language to use when
+syntax highlighting files and diffs. See ["Syntax
+Highlighting"](highlighting.md) for more information.
+
+[gitattributes]: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes