[PATCH] gitattributes documentation: link to gitignore for glob format

From

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>

Date

Sep 21, 2008, 13:23 UTC

Message-ID

<1222003408-12118-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

In-Reply-To

<C4AD5305-CDD8-418D-95C8-C738A86E78E1@wincent.com>

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 On 9/21/08, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
 >  Did you actually proofread this before sending it?

 I did, but obviously I should have been more serious on
 English classes.

 Documentation/gitattributes.txt |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 9a75257..708a9b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:
 	glob	attr1 attr2 ...
 
 That is, a glob pattern followed by an attributes list,
-separated by whitespaces.  When the glob pattern matches the
+separated by whitespace. The glob pattern format is the same as
+the one used by `gitignore` files. Please refer to linkgit:gitignore[5]
+for more information. When the glob pattern matches the
 path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to
 the path.
 

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