* [PATCH 1/1] doc: Mention info/attributes in gitrepository-layout
@ 2017-11-22 8:58 Steffen Prohaska
2017-11-22 15:54 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Steffen Prohaska @ 2017-11-22 8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git, Junio C Hamano; +Cc: Steffen Prohaska
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
---
Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index adf9554ad2..c60bcad44a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ info/exclude::
'git clean' look at it but the core Git commands do not look
at it. See also: linkgit:gitignore[5].
+info/attributes::
+ Defines which attributes to assign to a path, similar to per-directory
+ `.gitattributes` files. See also: linkgit:gitattributes[5].
+
info/sparse-checkout::
This file stores sparse checkout patterns.
See also: linkgit:git-read-tree[1].
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2.15.0.5.g43a9009988
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* Re: [PATCH 1/1] doc: Mention info/attributes in gitrepository-layout
2017-11-22 8:58 [PATCH 1/1] doc: Mention info/attributes in gitrepository-layout Steffen Prohaska
@ 2017-11-22 15:54 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Junio C Hamano @ 2017-11-22 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steffen Prohaska; +Cc: git
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
> ---
> Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
> index adf9554ad2..c60bcad44a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
> @@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ info/exclude::
> 'git clean' look at it but the core Git commands do not look
> at it. See also: linkgit:gitignore[5].
>
> +info/attributes::
> + Defines which attributes to assign to a path, similar to per-directory
> + `.gitattributes` files. See also: linkgit:gitattributes[5].
> +
Makes sense, but don't we also want to mention a bit more than
"similar to"? The entries in this file is treated as higher
priority than the in-tree .gitattributes file, which allows us to
use it to locally override the choice made by the project.
> info/sparse-checkout::
> This file stores sparse checkout patterns.
> See also: linkgit:git-read-tree[1].
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