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[PATCH v2 1/2] doc/gitattributes: clarify "autocrlf overrides eol"

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 29, 2019, 12:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20190129124107.GA21931@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20190129124031.GA13084@sigill.intra.peff.net>

We only override core.eol with core.autocrlf when the latter is set to something besides "false". Let's make this more clear, and point the reader to the git-config definitions, which discuss this in more detail.

Noticed-by: Sergey Lukashev <lukashev.s@ya.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index b8392fc330..ce383e97dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the
 repository.  To control what line ending style is used in the working
 directory, use the `eol` attribute for a single file and the
 `core.eol` configuration variable for all text files.
-Note that `core.autocrlf` overrides `core.eol`
+Note that setting `core.autocrlf` to `true` or `input` overrides
+`core.eol` (see the definitions of those options in
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
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