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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-10 15:50:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-10 15:50:57 -0700 |
| commit | 6631a0922904694033bd0c6951383eaa7efdb46e (patch) | |
| tree | 60a3e665419a49a273913aae2750795932fc270b /gitattributes.txt | |
| parent | f9ad45cd463e4831a81312a8db7a86e4217b8990 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-6631a0922904694033bd0c6951383eaa7efdb46e.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.8.0-rc1-18-gc5fe2
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diff --git a/gitattributes.txt b/gitattributes.txt index 99ed04d7a..ba02d4de5 100644 --- a/gitattributes.txt +++ b/gitattributes.txt @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest precedence). +When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the +path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process, +`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the +working tree is used as a fall-back. + If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow for that repository), then |