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author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-03-27 23:49:50 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-03-27 23:49:50 +0000 |
commit | 99dc24aa91d13a2c3a1e8d7789b6d57fdb42f750 (patch) | |
tree | 2d244e215911a0db5dbc769caede7c41e05f3427 /gitattributes.txt | |
parent | a14a4031ea339f7f644448239c46721a30c47b9e (diff) | |
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diff --git a/gitattributes.txt b/gitattributes.txt index 84ec9623a..04ca63ca3 100644 --- a/gitattributes.txt +++ b/gitattributes.txt @@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ path in question, and its parent directories (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 +attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file. +Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other +repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into +`.gitattributes` files. + Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute for a path to `unspecified` state. This can be done by listing the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point `!`. |