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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-03-27 23:49:50 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-03-27 23:49:50 +0000
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@@ -340,6 +340,12 @@ precedence), <tt>.gitattributes</tt> file in the same directory as the
path in question, and its parent directories (the further the
directory that contains <tt>.gitattributes</tt> is from the path in
question, the lower its precedence).</p>
+<p>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
+attributes should be placed in the <tt>$GIT_DIR/info/attributes</tt> file.
+Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other
+repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
+<tt>.gitattributes</tt> files.</p>
<p>Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute
for a path to <tt>unspecified</tt> state. This can be done by listing
the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point <tt>!</tt>.</p>
@@ -817,7 +823,7 @@ commit hash.</p>
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+Last updated 27-Mar-2008 23:49:28 UTC
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